Back in April I blogged about an issue I found with the Chrome browser where the Flash Player debugger wasn't working properly. That post has received a number of views and has helped a few folks get around the issue. I recently ran into a similar issue where viewing PDF files in Chrome caused the following screen to display. NOTE: I believe this issue only pertains to the dev channel version of Chrome.
Somewhere along the way Chrome has added it's own PDF viewer plug-in that has taken over the browser. Fortunately, fixing this issue is just as easy as fixing the Flash Player debugger issue. I want the Preview application on Mac OS X to be used for PDF's instead of Chrome's default plug-in. To make this happen you open Chrome's plug-in preferences window (Preferences - Under the Hood - Content Settings (button) - Plugins - Disable individual plug-ins (text)) and disable the Chrome PDF Viewer. After making this change everything should be back to normal.
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This entry was posted by Aaron West on August 6, 2010 at 12:28 PM. It was filed in the following categories: Mac. It has been viewed 28380 times and has 23 comments.
Thanks a lot!
it didn't work...
I think one thing you need to add is that for the change to take effect, you must close the browser and re-open. I noticed one of the posts said it didn't work and that might be why. Also, since Chrome updated, the path is slightly different: Customize button (wrench) > Options > Under the Hood > Content Settings (button) > then under "Plugins", "Disable individual plug-ins...". Or you can bypass all that and just type "about:plugins" in the Google Chrome address bar. Hope that helps.
Thank you for the comment Linda. I'll look into making the changes you suggest over the next few days.
Oh wow ! I really really thanks a lot. I did hundred times and hundred ways to find way to fix it ( Missing Plug-in ) but I failed.
Luckily. I found your webside . I did as you show. I fixed it. Now I can watch clip on youtube and listen music.
Thanks a lot.
Lee
Thank you!!
What if it says it's already disabled?? could it be that I need to update java or real player?
i dont find that on my plugins but it still missing
thankx a ton linda :) muhaa
thanx a ton linda :) muhaa
it didn't work.
Thank you very much! this thing was puzzling me for days...
didnt work...
I FOUND A FIX. If you click on 'details' at the top right, and expand the Flash section (probably at the top of the list), you may have multiple versions of the same Flash enabled - disable one of these. It SHOOULD work. Just worked for me! Good luck.
Now @Charles fix worked for me!!! Thanks.
Charles, thanks for posting the info; I'm glad it helped others. I'm curious why your fix works versus what I posted in this blog entry. I've tested and retested and each time what I suggest in this post fixes the problem. Can you shed any light on this?
I don't think plugin issue is good for chrome, I used to download a plugin to chorme, it generate a lot of wrong codes, but firefox worked well.
Charles' answer solved my issue. Thank you very much!!!
Charles solution worked for me!
Thanks everybody!!!
If the plugin is already disabled, reenable it. At least that is what worked for me.
Anybody else finding this browser counterintuitive and hard to deal with? I like the interface and I've been happy with chrome for a while but I'm beginning to suspect it's not worth the effort.
Here's the solution.It worked for me:
First go to Options then Under the Hood
at the Privacy section choose Content settings.
Scroll down to Plug-ins,click Disable individual plug-ins
Check if these two plug-ins are disabled :
Flash (2 files) - Version: 11,1,102,55
Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
Version: 11,1,102,55
Location: C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\16.0.912.75\gcswf32.dll
Disable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie
.spl
Name: Shockwave Flash
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
Version: 11,1,102,55
Location: C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll
Disable
MIME types:
MIME type Description File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie
.swf
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie
.spl
If so,just enable them,and the "Missing plug-in"problem won't appear anymore.Hope i helped.
Thanks, dude! It really solved the problem.
Brilliant, many thanks. Your instructions were simple and worked perfectly.