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Flashpocolypse. Sure it’s a silly name. But what *pocolypse isn’t? The beginning of the end of Flash has been circling overhead for some time, but the beast will not die. The latest release of Google Chrome certainly must weaken Flash’s resolve to live for much longer. In June, Google announced in a blog post that it introduced a beta feature in Chrome that would “intelligently pause content (like Flash animations) that aren’t central to the webpage.” That feature is no longer in beta. Flash content that Chrome deems non-central no longer plays by default.
The primary intention of killing Flash content in this manner was to help preserve laptop battery life. Its impact reaches farther than power consumption. Publishers dependent on Flash advertisements, for example, may no longer see impressions or corresponding revenue from Chrome visitor activity on their sites. Google’s own ad network, AdSense, does not deliver Flash ads, opting instead for HTML5 ads. As such, the impact on AdSense publishers will likely be minimal. Myriad recent security issues with Flash Player must also be a consideration when deciding to block Flash ads by default. No matter the reason, we will show you how to unblock Flash in Chrome so you aren’t deprived of any of the great Flash ad content you may still encounter.
Unblock Flash in Chrome
First, please note that this article was first published in 2015. An updated version of this article is available here.
To unblock the Flash Player plugin in Chrome, and show a recommended prompt to allow Flash content when you encounter it, click the Customize and control Google Chrome button. It is the icon with 3 vertical dots located to the right of the web address bar. Click Settings.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Settings page, and click the Advanced link. When the page expands to display advanced settings, scroll down to the Privacy and security section, and click Site Settings.
In Site Settings, scroll down to the Permissions section and click Flash.
To unblock Flash in Chrome, toggle the Block sites from running Flash button to Ask first.
The option exists to manage certain Flash behavior on specific sites. When you encounter Flash content, Chrome asks you to Click to enable Adobe Flash Player. When you click to enable Flash, click to Allow or Block Flash for that site.
Review and remove sites you allowed or blocked from Flash settings. Click the Trash icon to the right of a site to remove it from the Allow or Block list.
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A few weeks ago I started using Chrome on Mac OS X as my main Web browser. I had grown tired of Safari 4 chewing up nearly a gig of RAM after leaving it open for a week or more. Don't get me wrong, Safari is a fantastic browser and I wasn't happy about switching. But I can't have any browser chew through a gig of memory even if it takes it a week to do so. Chrome is nearly as fast as Safari (for me) and I've left it open for two weeks without any tab hogging memory. Each opened tab spawns its own process allowing a single tab to fail without affecting other tabs. In general I've found each tab occupies 25 MB to 40 MB of RAM. If you do that math you'll realize I can open around 25-40 tabs before Chrome takes up a gig of RAM.
Enough about my reasons for switching to Chrome, this post is about the Flash Player running in Chrome.
When I switched to Chrome I quickly realized the debugger version of the Flash Player wasn't being used. When I attempted to run a step debugging process Flash Builder 4 displayed a notification warning me I wasn't running a debugger version of the player. I validated this claim using Adobe's Flash Player version checker.
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This seemed really odd to me since I knew I was running a debug version of the player. I launched Safari and loaded the Flash Player version checker and it said I was running the debug version. So I checked in Firefox and received the same result. Why was Safari and Firefox using a debugger player but Chrome wasn't. As far as I understood things every browser on OS X looked in the /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ for two files: Flash Player.plugin and flashplayer.xpt. Whichever versions of these files you had in the directory dictated your installed Flash Player version.
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That's when I remembered Chrome has its own embedded version of Flash Player and it manages this version of the player without input from you. This is good and bad. Casual Chrome users receive automatic updates to the Flash Player which can be useful when there are critical Flash Player security updates. For programmers writing software for the Flash Player this feature isn't so good.
I dug through Chrome preferences and found the screen at Preferences - Under the Hood - Content Settings (button) - Plugins - Disable individual plug-ins (text). A faster way to get to this configuration screen is to enter chrome://plugins/ in your address bar. After disabling the default Chrome-managed version of Flash Player the Adobe Flash Player version checker reported the correct debugger version. I was now able to debug Flex applications in Flash Builder 4, though it still told me I wasn't running a debugger player.
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For those who wind up disabling the default player like I did, be warned. Chrome automatically updates it's default Flash Player and when it does the plugin is re-enabled. And since the plugin is listed higher on the Plugins page, this version of the plugin takes precedence when two different versions are enabled. You may want to check from time to time to verify you are still running a debug version. Just today I had to disable the default plugin again.
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