Google Chrome is still in it’s beta stage as it’s having a lots of bugs and drawbacks. Google is trying to improve it’s functionality and compatibility with many features and sites. One of the major problems in Google Chrome is that it does not support flash based websites or flash contents. Now if you want to run flash files on Google Chrome, you have to manually configure it with flash plugin for Chrome. Let’s know how to make Google Chrome show or open flash contents.
Installing Flash Player on Google Chrome
- Download latest version of Google Chrome
- Download flash player for Windows
- Rename the downloaded file to flash.zip
- Now extract the Zipped file to a folder
- Select and copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll from the extracted folder
- Navigate to Google Chrome plugins folder which is must likely to be C/Documents and settings//Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/Plugins/ (This is the normal root if you have installed Google chrome in C:\ drive)
- Paste both copied files in Google Chrome plugins directory
- You are done.
Restart Google Chrome and try opening flash contents using it. Now you should be able to open and run flash contents on Google chrome browser without any problem.
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