Unable to install Flash Player on Iron 23

[pyhair]

Hello,

What could be the cause of not being able to install Flash Player ?

Since a few days (don't remember what I did before it happened, was it an Iron update or something else), Iron cannot display Flash contents. I have the "Adobe Flash Player is required to display some elements on this page [Install plugin]" bar. Of course I installed the plugin as suggested, restarted the browser, logged off, rebooted, but still no Flash content.

I even uninstalled Iron, removed my C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Chromium\User Data folder, and re-installed Iron. To no avail.

Flash does not appear on chrome://plugins/ page but it works on FireFox and Chrome (this one does not count as it is using its internal flash player).

What else can I try ? Why this plugin does not work anymore ?

I'm not ready to re-install my Windows 7 64 bit to fix this problem. I'd rather swith to FireFox, but I prefer Iron.

Thanks for helping.

[mapx]

you could try flash player 32 bit and then another try with flash player 64 bit

to try 32 / 64 bit flash player you must use for example first firefox 32 bit and then firefox 64 bit
(first better uninstall your flash player)


http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/W ... ayer.shtml

[pyhair]

Thanks for the idea. However I won't try to mess with the unsupported 64 bit version of FireFox. I'm trying to solve a problem, not to add more...

We are not supposed to do that in order to get Flash running in Iron, are we ?

When I go to chrome://flash it says Flash Plugin is disabled. It that the PepperPlayer that is not included in Iron ?

About Flash

SRWare Iron 23.0.1300.0 ()
OS Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit
Flash plugin Disabled
--- Crash data ---
Crash Reporting Enable crash reporting to see crash IDs
For more details http://www.srware.net/iron_info.php
--- GPU information ---
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Driver display name nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver name (strong) oem57.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section024:9.18.13.697:pci\ven_10de&dev_0e22
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Driver display name nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver name (strong) oem57.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section024:9.18.13.697:pci\ven_10de&dev_0e22
--- GPU driver, more information ---
Vendor Id 0x10de
Device Id 0x0e22
Driver vendor NVIDIA
Driver version 9.18.13.697
Driver date 10-2-2012
Pixel shader version 3.0
Vertex shader version 3.0
GL version
GL_VENDOR
GL_RENDERER
GL_VERSION
GL_EXTENSIONS

The main question is: Why FireFox does detect the installed plugin and Iron does not ?

[pyhair]

The problem seems to be in the 23.0.1300.0 version.

I tried to revert to Iron 22.0.1.250.0. Flash and many other plugins are listed in chrome://plugins page

Installing v 23 on top of 22 or after an uninstallation does not change anything, the result is: the plugins list is very smaller and does not include Flash.

So, for me there is a problem. Either there is a setting somewhere that breaks plugins loading and that should be made clear when installing or there is a bug (possibly also in Chrome) and it should be corrected.

Do Iron developers monitor the forum ? Should I submit a bug report somewhere ?

[pyhair]

SOLUTION found.

The bug seems to be in Chromium and is related to a Java plugin. Until the version 24 is available with a fix, a workaround is to prevent loading this plugin.

This thread gives the solution to rename the path of the DLL in the registry at
HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins\@java.com\DTPlugin

This didn't fix the problem for me (and others as seen on forums) as I don't have this exact key (Windows 7 64 bit). So you may also want to look at this key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\@java.com/DTPlugin,version=10.7.2

Rename the Path to something like npDeployJava1_DISABLED.dll

Chrome and Iron are now loading all the missing plugins, including Flash. YEAH !!!!

[bcbigb]

Hey, just joined the forums to say thanks for the info and that, as it appeared to be a Java problem, I updated from 1.7.0.7 to 1.7.0.10 and it solved the issue without any other tinkering.

Cheers!

[drackon]

Thank you, pyhair! Your solution with registry helped.

You saved me from moving back to slow Firefox

[pyhair]

as it appeared to be a Java problem, I updated from 1.7.0.7 to 1.7.0.10 and it solved the issue without any other tinkering.

I also had to update to Java 1.7.0.10 for other reasons. That broke Flash in Iron again but my fix successfully went to the rescue.

I finally completely removed Java, but that's another story.

[Bones]

SOLUTION found.

The bug seems to be in Chromium and is related to a Java plugin. Until the version 24 is available with a fix, a workaround is to prevent loading this plugin.

This thread gives the solution to rename the path of the DLL in the registry at
HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins\@java.com\DTPlugin

This didn't fix the problem for me (and others as seen on forums) as I don't have this exact key (Windows 7 64 bit). So you may also want to look at this key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\@java.com/DTPlugin,version=10.7.2

Rename the Path to something like npDeployJava1_DISABLED.dll

I am having this same flash issue, could you walk me through on how to do the fix you suggested.