Flash missing in google chrome?

[circus78]

Hi,
I was thinking that Adobe Flash was included in google chrome browser; I've installed it from the "official" repo:

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

but if I type chrome://plugins in the main bar I don't see any reference to flash.
How can I solve this?
Thankyou!

I'm using Fedora 17

[cazo]

I'm not sure about the i386 version, but the x86_64 version (google-chrome-stable-21.0.1180.57-148591.x86_64) has it:

(from chrome://plugins)

Shockwave Flash 11.3 r31
Name:		Shockwave Flash
Description:	Shockwave Flash 11.3 r31
Version:	11.3.31.222
Location:	/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
Type:		PPAPI (out-of-process)
 		Disable
MIME types:	
MIME type			Description		File extensions
application/x-shockwave-flash	Shockwave Flash		.swf
application/futuresplash	FutureSplash Player	.spl

Otherwise, you can get it from Adobe (that's what I had to do with previous versions of chrome that didn't include it).

[msava]

I'm experiencing the same issue on an x86 box.
The file is present at it's designated place in the file system, but Chrome can't seem to see and use it.
Also if I install any of the flash plugins that are available (Adobe, Lightspark or Gnash), Chrome immediately begins to crash and gets unusable.

[starfall42]

I ran into this on an old Thinkpad R31 -- Chrome's Pepper Flash doesn't show up, and the standard Flash 11 plugin crashes. I'm thinking it's related to old video cards, rather than the 32 bit system.

The official requirements for Flash 11 call for 128MB video RAM; my R31 has 64. I was able to download an old version (10.3) and it works, albeit with Chrome complaining about the old version.

Old Flash versions. I used 10.3.183.23. Extract /fp_10.3.183.23_archive/10.3.183.23/flashplayer_10_3r183_23_linux.tar.gz then extract libflashplayer.so from that and put it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Chrome will pick it up there.

To keep Chrome from complaining about the old plugin, you can modify the launcher to include --allow-outdated-plugins

Edit: I also tried 11.1 and that works too. However, performance with both are pretty bad.

[msava]

I don't see how it can be related with the video memory since I have a 256 MB card, so if what you are saying is true there shouldn't be a problem.
Anyway my interest in this issue is purely out of curiosity.
My solution to the problem was to remove all trace of the program from my system, giving that it doesn't even come close to matching Firefox in stability, security, speed, memory consumption, you name it.

[secipolla]

Google Chrome automatically disables its bundled Flash plugin (ppapi) for processors that aren't sse2 capable (Athlon XP, for instance).
The best thing is to use 10.3.183.23 as cited by starfall42 as it's supposedly a security patched version, then edit Chrome's desktop file with --allow-outdated-plugins in the Exec= line so it doesn't keep saying that Flash is outdated.