No Flash Player in Chromium on OSX

Question

Few days ago I switched from Firefox to Chromium. I really liked it, but it has one minor issue. I can't make it run flash.

I followed this article, but there is no Flash Player entry on my about:plugins page.

In other browsers (Safari, Firefox, Opera) Flash Player works correctly. I am using OS X 10.10.

Answer 1

try chrome://flags/ and Enable NPAPI

Answer 2

NPAPI will be finished soon. Here is just a knowledge about how to load PPAPI Flash to Chromium for osx.

INSTALL newest flash player (now 18.0.0.209) from adobe. https://get.adobe.com/jp/flashplayer/otherversions/ choose osx and chromium, download, and install.

Chromium can't load it as default. SO you have to launch Chromium by Terminal with optional command. Everytime you launch Terminal.app then type following text and hit enter key.

/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --ppapi-flash-path=/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/PepperFlashPlayer/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin --ppapi-flash-version=18.0.0.209

Your chromium will load newest ppapi flash on OSX level. To confirm, Go to following url by chromium. chrome://plugins

I see it is crazy. I wish it should be loaded automatically as default.

Answer 3

Installing Flash Player on Chromium on a Mac system is easy, follow these instructions:

1. On chromium, open a new tab and navigate to chrome://flags, goto NPAPI section and enable it.
2. Download Flash NPAPI
   • Web page
   • direct link
3. Install Flash player
4. On Chromium open a new tab and navigate to chrome://plugins, goto the Flash player section, (normally it is enabled - if not, enable it) and tick 'Always allowed to run'
5. Open a new tab to a web page using Flash and enjoy.

Answer 4

The way I ended up "fixing" it on my installation was by creating a small executable replacing the default in Contents/MacOS. I renamed the Chromium binary Chromium_ and complied the following:

#include <iostream>

int main() {
    system("/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium_ --ppapi-flash-path=/Library/Internet\\ Plug-Ins/PepperFlashPlayer/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin/Contents/MacOS/PepperFlashPlayer --ppapi-flash-version=19.0.0.226");
    return 0;
}

By compiling the code and naming it Chromium, I now simply click the regular Chromium icon to launch the browser with flash. While it works, the executable doesn't persist after updating Chromium via Chromatic. Additionally, every time you update the PPAPI plug, you need to edit and recompile the code. To get around it, I threw together the following on GitHub: https://github.com/andersensam/enableChromiumFlash. It prompts for a version of the PPAPI plugin desired and replaces the binary in Contents/MacOS. Hope this helps!

Answer 5

This is an old thread but some might still find this useful. Following the direction of user470821, I modified the chromium app, by navigating to Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS and changing the Chromium file to _Chromium then I created a simple shell script with the name Chromium in the same directory:

/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/_Chromium \
--ppapi-flash-path=/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/PepperFlashPlayer/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin \
--ppapi-flash-version=25.0.0.148

Finally, just make sure to run the following command once the shell script is written:

chmod +x /Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium

Now I can open the chromium app without using the terminal and the whole thing just works.

Answer 6

Apparently you have to install it, according to Adobe's Flash Player Help / Use Flash Player with Chromium page:

To view content with Flash Player in the Chromium open source web browser, install the Flash Player plug-in at get.adobe.com/flashplayer.

Note: Unlike Chromium, the similar Google Chrome browser includes Adobe Flash Player built-in.

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Or, how about Use Pepper Flash Player From Google Chrome In Chromium Browser [How To] (linux)?

1. Download and install Google Chrome.

2. Now, to launch Chromium browser with the Adobe Flash Player version bundled with Google Chrome, use the following command:

   chromium-browser --ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome*/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.3.31.323
   

3. Try it out and if Adobe Flash Player that comes bundled with Google Chrome is working fine for you in Chromium, let's make it permanent so you don't have to use any command line parameters in the future.

   For this, you need to open the /etc/chromium-browser/default file as root with a text editor:

   gksu gedit /etc/chromium-browser/default
   

   And replace CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" with the following:

   CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome*/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=$PEPPER_FLASH_VERSION"
   

   This will automatically get the Flash Player version from the Google Chrome manifest file once you log out and log back in.