Fp 27 Mac For Opera And Chromium
On Saturday, I started to notice that logins to the vSphere Web (Flex) Client stopped working with Google Chrome. Upon a successful logon, it would immediately crash with 'Shockwave Flash has crashed' message. I had seen this message plenty of times in the past and usually restarting Chrome would resolve the problem but this time it looked to be persistent even after a system reboot. I took to Twitter to see if I was the only one hitting this issue since I was not able to find anything on the web and literally in minutes, I had several dozen replies with folks experiencing the same issue which apparently started several days ago but like most, including myself, thought it was an isolated event. I thought it was just me, but apparently other folks reporting Flash crashing immediately w/Flash Web Client on latest Chrome. — William Lam (@lamw) After a bit of back/fourth and a few other folks chiming in, it looks like Google actually went and published a newer version of Flash ( 27.0.0.170) with latest Chrome ( 61.0.3163.100) update.
If prefer HTML5 over Flash is enabled and try to download Flash player doesn't get downloaded. Project Member Reported. Go/chrome/ and select Operating system and select 'FP 23 for Opera and Chromium -PPAPI' and click on Download 5. Should get an bubble to Run Flash with options 'Allow' and 'Block' 6. Flash player should get downloaded.
This newer Flash version is not even available for download and the current version as listed on Adobe's website should be 27.0.0.159. This issue not only affects VMware products that uses Flash but any website that has Flash content and I had also noticed few others sharing frustrations on Twitter for other flash-based websites. Luckily, one workaround that I had found which others have also confirmed is to switch to Firefox which currently does not have this issue Its also been reported that latest updates from Firefox is also distributing the latest Flash which causes the exact same issue.
Like most, Chrome is my default browser and it was annoying that I had to switch to another browser but that was the only way I could access the content I needed. Earlier this evening, I was looking at the VMware Reddit Channel and noticed a thread had popped up regarding this exact issue and it looks like more and more folks are now noticing. I had quickly glanced through the thread and thought there was not any new info, but then I saw an interesting from Reddit user who apparently found a nice workaround that would allow you to use latest version of Chrome with the vSphere Web Client. He found that if you still had the previous or even older version of Flash, you could simply delete the latest version and Chrome would function again.
Disclaimer: Be be aware that the latest version of Flash (27.0.0.170) does resolve a major 0-day security vulnerability which is outlined and reverting its affects can put you and your organizations at risk. One potential option to mitigate the risk of reverting the Flash version is to build a single jumphost VM that contains the workaround and ensuring it does not have any outbound network connectivity and limiting its access. This can be used temporarily to manage your VMware infrastructure that requires Flash until this issue is resolved by Adobe. UPDATE1 () - It looks like you can also simply replace the new pepperflash DLL with an older version and placing it within the 27.0.0.170 folder (in case Chrome tries to update it). If you are looking for a working Windows DLL, it looks like one has been posted on one of the Chrome Issues thread. 