In practice, this means when I want or need to use Flash Player for whatever reason, I use Chrome for those Flash websites. This allows a user to uninstall Flash from the Mac in general but still retain Flash playing capabilities within the Google Chrome web browser sandboxed environment. Personally, I only use the Adobe Flash plugin within the Chrome sandbox environment, and I do not install Flash (or any other plugins) into Safari. It’s important to keep Flash Player up to date if you’re going to use the Flash plug-in or have it installed, whether it’s in Chrome or in another web browser. Quit and relaunch Google Chrome browser for the new Adobe Flash Player plugin to load.“Status – Component not updated” – the update failed for some reason or another, or there was no update available and thus the component was not updated.“Status – No update” – there is no available update for the flash plugin.

“Status – Component updated’ – this means the Flash plugin was successfully updated to the latest version (version number shown corresponding).Click on “Check for update” under ‘Adobe Flash Player’ and you will see various Status updates indicating the component update status.Locate “Adobe Flash Player” in the list of Chrome components.In the URL bar of Google Chrome, type the following address: chrome://components/ and hit return.This updates the Adobe Flash Player plugin in the Chrome web browser, this is demonstrated in Mac OS but it works the same in Windows too. How to Update Adobe Flash Player Plugin in Google Chrome But, we’re focusing on Chrome here so let’s figure out how to resolve that blocked out of date plugin message in all Chrome browsers. Sometimes you may see a yellow banner at the top of the screen saying “Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date.” or “$1 was blocked because it is out of date.” to indicate the plugin must be updated.Ī similar message will appear in Safari if Flash is out of date too. Typically just periodically quitting and relaunching Google Chrome will update the Adobe Flash Player plugin on it’s own and without any user acknowledgment. How do I know when to update Adobe Flash Player plugin within Google Chrome? This tutorial will walk through how to manually update Adobe Flash Player within the Google Chrome browser.

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