- How To Find Plugin Settings For Adobe Flash Player On Mac Chrome
- How To Find Plugin Settings For Adobe Flash Player On Mac
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Google has made yet another change to Chrome’s “under the hood” settings with the removal of the chrome://plugins page in version 57, so how do you access the settings for plugins now? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a frustrated reader’s question.
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How To Find Plugin Settings For Adobe Flash Player On Mac Chrome
The Question
In this step-by-step guide, learn how to enable Adobe Flash Player in the Safari web browser. Check Safari version on your Mac Before you start, check the version of Safari running on your Mac.
SuperUser reader Jedi wants to know what happened to chrome://plugins in Google Chrome:
Until recently, Google Chrome allowed a person to enable or disable plugins (like Adobe Flash Player) using the chrome://plugins page. But it seems that the page no longer exists (as of Google Chrome 57.0.2987.98). So how do I access Google Chrome’s plugins now?
What happened to chrome://plugins in Google Chrome?
The Answer
SuperUser contributor Steven has the answer for us:
The chrome://plugins page was removed in Google Chrome, version 57.
- Objective: Remove the chrome://plugins page, moving configuration for the last remaining plugin, Adobe Flash Player, to its own explicit place in content settings (including an option, in settings, to disable it).
Source:Chromium – Issue-615738: Deprecate chrome://plugins
Use chrome://settings/content to control when Adobe Flash content is displayed and chrome://components to display the version of Adobe Flash Player installed.
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If you follow the news on Ghacks you know that Google Chrome is the first web browser that offers an internal Flash plugin to enable Flash support in the web browser. The internal Flash plugin is turned on by default so that all users of the web browser can access Flash based web contents even if Adobe Flash is not installed globally.
The Adobe Flash player controls are web based controls, and they can be used to manage various Flash based parameters and Flash cookies.
Update: You can open the controls directly as well now using this link: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
Note that you need to click on the 'get Flash' button on the page, and then allow Chrome to run Flash content to display the panel. The information below is no longer required. It is kept for archiving purposes. End
Chrome users who only use the internal Flash plugin might have noticed that those web controls are not opening for them properly. The control area remains white with no option to show the controls in the web browser.
It took a while of searching to find a way to display the Flash player settings panel in Google Chrome. Open the Chrome options by clicking on the Tools button in the Chrome toolbar.
Switch to the Under the Bonnet tab and click the Content Settings button afterwards. Now click on the Adobe Flash Player storage settings link in the Cookies tab to open the Adobe Website Storage Settings panel that works in the Chrome browser.
This opens the Flash player controls correctly so that Google Chrome users can manage the Flash Player settings as well.
It is possible to open the url directly in Google Chrome so that it is not necessary to follow the menu path to open it.
How To Find Plugin Settings For Adobe Flash Player On Mac
Update: Please note that Google removed the options from its Chrome browser again. While you can still open the Flash Player settings directly on the Macromedia website to manage the settings in the web browser, you won't find an integrated version of the settings anymore in it.