Then navigate to Adobe Flash Player download page (or Shockwave Player download page) and install the latest plugin version. Navigate to Windows control panel and completely uninstall the Adobe Flash Player & Shockwave Player plugins from your computer.Ģ. Your problem should be gone!Īdditional help: if you still experience problems with Adobe Flash Player or Shockwave Player in Chrome:ġ. In the case that you have only one version of the Flash Player or Shockwave plugins (like the screenshot bellow) then disable that version.ģ. At the listed plugins, find if you have two versions of the same plugin. In such situations, the solution to bypass the flash/shockwave player loading problems, is to disable the oldest version of these plugins (Flash Player or Shockwave Player) from Chrome Plugins.Ģ. The " This site uses a plugin (Adobe Flash Player) that will soon be unsupported" or/and " Could not load Shockwave flash" problems can happen because Chrome loads two different versions of Flash player (or Shockwave) plugins every time it starts. Disable Adobe Flash Player plugin in Chrome. Under Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows, choose Enable. Open your Chrome browser and at the address bar paste the following command and press Enter:Ģ. (After installation you must disable the automatic Chrome update).ġ. If you want to use NPAPI plugins after version 45, you have two options: To use an alternative browser (like Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) or to completely uninstall Chrome (Version 45 or higher) and then to download and install an older version of Chrome browser. Keep in mind that this solution is temporary and will work up to version 45 of Chrome, because after that version (45), all NPAPI plugins will be totally disabled. The first solution is to enable the NPAPI support on your Chrome browser. How to solve This site uses a plugin (Adobe Flash Player) that will soon be unsupported – Could not load Shockwave flash (Problem in Chrome). ** PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugins have limited permissions of the current user and they are more secure.
* NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugins have the full permissions of the current user and are not sandboxed or shielded from malicious inputs by Google Chrome.
In this tutorial you can learn how to resolve and bypass the Adobe Flash Player or/and shockwave load problems in your Google Chrome browser. The strange thing with the Adobe Flash or Shockwave Player loading problems, is that the most secure versions (PPAPI) of these plugins are already included in the latest Chrome versions installations so the problem could occur if Chrome loads an unsupported NPAPI plugin.
Adobe Flash, PDF Viewer, etc.) will continue to work. On the other hand, all websites and services that use PPAPI** plugins (including the Chrome shipped plugins e.g. After doing some research, I discovered that from Chrome version 42 and higher, all websites or services that use NPAPI* plugins (e.g.: Silverlight, Facebook, Java, Unity, Google Earth, Google Talk, etc) will not be supported (won't work) anymore. YouTube, Facebook, etc.): " This site uses a plugin (Adobe Flash Player) that will soon be unsupported – Could not load Shockwave flash". Today one of my customers called me to report the following Chrome problem when he opened websites that use the Adobe Flash Player or Shockwave Flash plugin (e.g. Now run the native version of firefox and test the shockwave player by visting this site. Now open a Terminal ( Ctrl + Alt + T ) and paste rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat Swallow(firefox.exe) fill stream: wine "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" -chrome "$file" Press Alt + F2 and type:Īdd the following two lines to the end of the file: application/x-director: dir,dcr,dxr,cst,cct,cxt,w3d,fgd,swa: Macromedia Director file Now you need to configure mozplugger to use the Windows version of Firefox for Shockwave files. Again, follow the on-screen instructions, and when the plugin has installed and is working, you may close Firefox. Now go to a web site that requires Shockwave, and choose to get the missing plugin. Now download and install the Windows version of Firefox.
You can use mozplugger(a program that lets you "embed" other programs in your web browser.) along with wine and windows version of firefoxįirst, install the wine and mozplugger packages (from the software center). The Shockwave player is only available for Windows.