After my last blog, about recent updates to the Flash Player, a reader was nice enough to pass along a tip that I am now passing along to you. I track updates to the Flash Player on my site, and a number of times Chrome has been late installing an update. Microsoft excel 2011 for mac won't react. The browser would report that it was up to date, yet Flash would be a release behind.

Hence, Flash Player support is holding to rejected by most of the browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, but still, some websites requested to install or make an update the flash player plugin for seeing videos easily. As you can see the default option is “Ask first (recommended)”, hence Chrome will ask with the message “Click to enable Adobe Flash Player”. Flash Options in Latest Mac Chrome Let us check out all the options to control the Flash settings for your need.

My last blog mentioned the helplessness of Chrome users to force an update to Flash. It turns out, we are not helpless. In addition to the standard, well-known mechanism, shown below, for updating Chrome (hamburger menu -> Help -> About Google Chrome), Google has a second system that they sometimes use for Flash.

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[ Further reading: ] Updating the Chrome web browser, the normal way Chrome, like all browsers, is a large complex package. On the Windows 7 computer that I normally use, the C: Program Files (x86) Google Chrome Application 49.0.2623.112 folder is currently 390 megabytes and contains 88 files. In addition, Chrome stores files in C: Users [windowsuserid] AppData Local Google Chrome User Data Many of the files in this second location are the browser cache, but, even ignoring the cache, Chrome has 3,768 files here consuming 239 megabytes. Rather than do a full refresh for a small change, Google's second update system does small updates for small changes. The parts of Chrome that can be individually updated are called components and the Flash Player, embedded in Chrome, is one of these components.

[ ] Google mentions this in an article targeted at IT administrators called. It makes a good first impression. The article says that the 'Chrome Component Updater allows the Chrome engineering team to release small updates to parts of Chrome on a very rapid schedule.' Compared to the full browser update, the article notes that the Component Updater uses a small amount of bandwidth and only runs when the browser itself is running. The downside, for me at least, has been that there was no interface to the Chrome Component Updater. The tip that I received (thanks Michael) was that there is, in fact, an interface to it, and, that the Component Updater can be used to update Flash. The interface is a URL, chrome://components Updating Chrome browser components The number of Chrome components varies by operating system. The screen shot above, taken on Windows 10, indicates there are nine, only the first five are shown.

There are six components on OS X 10.10, eight on Windows 7, nine on Windows 8.1 and two on Chrome OS 49. The Flash Player is identified as 'pepper_flash'.

Simply click the gray 'Check for update' button and the Chrome Component Updater will not only check for updates, it will also download and install an available update. The 'Component updated' message in the screen shot above is the result of upgrading Flash from version 21.0.0.213 to 21.0.0.216. If there is no available update, the button click response is 'Component not updated'. If your computer is slow and/or the component is large, you may briefly see a 'component downloading' message too. In my tests, the Chrome Component Updater worked consistently across Windows, OS X and Chrome OS. The only downside is that on Chrome OS (tested on version 49) Flash is not an available component. So, there is no excuse for Windows and Mac users to run Chrome with an old version of Flash.

Good thing too, considering how buggy it has been over the years.

This article applies to only managed versions of Chrome Browser. Chrome OS comes with Flash built-in, and Flash cannot be uninstalled on Chrome OS devices.

Important note: Adobe has the deprecation of Flash Player for December, 2020 and will be turned in Chrome in July, 2019. We strongly encourage customers to migrate to alternative solutions. By default, Chrome installs Adobe Flash Player in the background or the first time that a user encounters Flash content, and Chrome will continue to update Flash Player via the. For most organizations, we recommend you use the default settings. However, some IT admins may want to manage their users’ Flash experience. Flash deployment recommendations for IT admins You have two options: Option 1: Allow Chrome to manage its version of Flash Player (recommended) Keep the Chrome Component Updater enabled (default). In Windows Group Policy Editor, set =true.