[ # ] How to Install Adobe Flash Plugin for Google Chrome

/* Posted October 22nd, 2008 at 10:40am */
/* Filed under Google Chrome */

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The Adobe Flash player plugin is widely used all over the Internet, so it’s almost crucial that you install the Flash plugin for Google Chrome if you wish to maximize your browser experience. If you’ve been prompted to install the Flash plugin but nothing happens, then you’ll need to manually install it yourself. The installation procedure is pretty straightforward.

  1. Download the Flash player xpi for Windows.
  2. Add a .zip extension to the file. It should now be: flashplayer-win.xpi.zip
  3. Extract the contents and copy two files “flashplayer.xpt” and “NPSWF32.dll” (indicated in the screenshot below) over to C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins in XP or C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins in Vista (thank you Derek), making sure to change ‘user’ to your Windows login name. You can avoid having to unhide hidden files in Windows Explorer simply by copying and pasting the directory path provided above into the path bar.
    flash-xpi_extract
  4. Restart Google Chrome, then see if you can watch a YouTube video to see if it worked. Or just come back to this page.


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26 Responses to “How to Install Adobe Flash Plugin for Google Chrome”

 Comment from Sean [October 23, 2008, 11:45 am]

Very awesome!
Worked like a charm, and was a short and sweet fix.

 Comment from Avinash [October 23, 2008, 11:45 pm]

its really nice.

I was trying hard to install it but could not do but the method given above worked amazingly.

Good Work. and thanx

 Comment from PhilT [October 24, 2008, 6:36 am]

I didn’t have a \Plugins directory to drop the two files in ?

 Comment from Roger [October 24, 2008, 12:38 pm]

awesome..worked..

 Comment from Jamie [October 24, 2008, 4:02 pm]

Can someone try and access http://www.spurs.co.uk, the flash plugin that I install does not work on chrome. Any help please?!?!

 Comment from arjen [October 29, 2008, 12:44 pm]

Thank you. It worked instantly.
Arjen
Holland

 Comment from Andy P [November 1, 2008, 2:45 pm]

Had to create Plugins folder manually, otherwise worked OK.

 Comment from Derek [November 2, 2008, 7:00 am]

Thanks, worked, but in VISTA the directory is C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

I also had to create the Plugins folder

 Comment from jason lindley [November 3, 2008, 7:58 am]

thanks derek, i have xp and there was no ‘Plugins’ file in ‘Application’ so i just created it, copied the two files into it and it works!

 Comment from Siddharth [November 3, 2008, 10:41 am]

thanks dude worked like a charm!!!
By the way if a new version of the flash player comes then do we need to upgrade??
If so how???

 Comment from Jorge [November 5, 2008, 10:09 pm]

Awesome!! It was like Magic. Thanks a lot

 Comment from epastrana [November 6, 2008, 2:06 pm]

Excellent! Worked perfect!

Nevertheless, I had to create manually the folder “Plugins” but after that and following your steps ONE BY ONE, it worked like a charm.

Thanks for your input and for sharing your knowledge.

Regards!

epastrana

 Comment from george [November 8, 2008, 3:50 am]

verry good work gays.thanks

 Comment from Kim [November 9, 2008, 11:04 pm]

Hooray! This has been driving me crazy. I had to create a plugins folder, but then it worked. Not to be confused with the “Plugin Data” folder that’s buried under the User Data, in case anyone else chases that path. ;)

 Comment from Alexandre [November 11, 2008, 7:46 am]

Brasil People! Tenho a versão 0.3.154.9 do Chrome e uso o XP, então o meu caminho para colocar os arquivos foi: C:\Documents and Settings\AlexandreS\Configurações locais\Dados de aplicativos\Google\Chrome\Application.3.154.9\Plugins Atenção se a pasta Plugins não existir crie!

Fiquem na paz de Jesus!

 Comment from John [November 12, 2008, 12:57 am]

Beautiful, this problem was plaguing me…

 Comment from Anonymous [November 17, 2008, 9:46 pm]

shows chrome aint ready yet,. uninstalling

 Comment from craig [November 18, 2008, 10:45 am]

hey i downloded tht file then i type in .zip then extracted usin winzip n i cant mange to find my google plug ins i found intertnet exsplore oh i use vister please some one help me e-mail me please

 Comment from Nate [November 20, 2008, 6:15 am]

Thanks. That solved my problem. I also had to create the plugins folder but otherwise it worked perfectly.

 Comment from dahiya [November 26, 2008, 5:03 am]

hurrrrry…….excellent job..its working fantastic….i have not created the “plugins folder” as said …..and copied both the files at the following location ..
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application

its working smoothly…

 Comment from Kamalpreet [November 26, 2008, 5:59 pm]

Thank you so much for the instructions. It worked and i didn’t have to reboot my computer. The search for this page drove me crazy. But once again thank you!

 Comment from Pete [December 1, 2008, 10:30 pm]

This does not help - although interestingly - when I went looking for the folder that I should have had on my system -

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

The “Plugins” folder did not exist. So I added a folder with that name to the applications folder and then added the downloaded files as instructed. But nothing changed.

I should note that my problem with the flash player and chrome is isolated to one web site - that of Bank of America and its application “Shopsafe” which allows you to get single use credit card numbers when shopping on the internet or elsewhere. I believe that the flashplayer works for every other application, but I am not sure how to test that - except I never get the error message except on that one site.

So - it may be that it is just the designers of this one web site have a code that Chrome has trouble with…..just a guess.

 Comment from stu [December 3, 2008, 1:56 pm]

if we didnt have flash on Chrome at the start of this, how would we follow your youtube link

 Comment from John Houk [January 4, 2009, 11:36 pm]

I think this may have changed (Or my experience was different because i changed my %ProgramFiles% to = D:\Program Files”)

I tried putting these 2 files in many folders such as:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Plugin Data
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Plugin Data\Adobe Flash Movie
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Plugin Data\Adobe Flash
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Plugin Data\Flash

But finally I broke down and did what made sense to me and tried the one that worked:
%ProgramFiles%\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

I’m just going to make a self extracting rar file to remember this one. I can update the 2 files later. …hopefully by then I wont have to.

 Comment from John Houk [January 4, 2009, 11:37 pm]

HMM just a thought. maybe this is different cuz my chrome was installed by GOOGLE PACK! DOH!

 Comment from John Houk [January 4, 2009, 11:54 pm]

Hey can’t someone just make a batch file to do this? using ftp type commands
download the current flashplayer-win.xpi
rename it
..isin’t there a command to do something if a specified file exists..
xcopy to the correct directory based on the existence of the Applications folder.

Hmm i dono bout the exists command, i can’t find it. You can probably do this EZ in some other script language.

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