Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.145

[mirkt]

Hello,

Yesterday Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.145 was released:
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/product ... 14-17.html

Updating Adobe Flash Player's OPSI package (for IE and Plugin-based browsers) was easy as usual, but what about Google Chrome (I am deploying Enterprise version) this time? They are not releasing new version:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co ... pdate.html

How are you guys going to update Chrome's Flash Player "component" using OPSI?

Thanks in advance and good luck

[ritsovih]

thanks for the heads-up, didn't realize Chrome was this retarded

I did a little research and the only possible solution I was able to find, is to disable the pepper flash plugin, then chrome will revert to the npapi plugin.

3 problems with that:
1- the plugin settings seem to be stored in a json file (%appdata%\google\Chrome\default\Preferences), so you would need to build some script that changes "enabled":true to "enabled":false in below section:

Code: Alles auswählen

 {
         "enabled": true,
         "name": "Shockwave Flash",
         "path": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\35.0.1916.153\\PepperFlash\\pepflashplayer.dll",
         "version": "14.0.0.125"
      }

bonus sucky-points for the version number in the filepath!
double bonus sucky-points for not being able to do this via group policy!


2- Google will likely re-enable pepper flash again in a future update

3- Google is planning to end support for all npapi plugins by the end of 2014, so then you would be stuck with pepper flash anyway

[mirkt]

Disabling Pepper – that's what I came up to either.. The simplest (but not the best) solution would be replacing shortcuts to: chrome.exe --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash

https://techswag.nl/Adobe%20Flash/FPP/G ... er-plugin/

[ritsovih]

I found another way, it's a bit of a hack, but whatever

download and install the consumer version via:
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/i ... andalone=1

this contains an updated pepper flash version, which you can find under %appdata%\Google\Chrome\PepperFlash\14.0.0.145

in your install script just install the regular chrome for business (hah!) msi as usual, but also copy the newer pepperflash files over the old ones that come bundled with the msi (probably in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\35.0.1916.153\PepperFlash)

if you check chrome://plugins it will still say: 14.0.0.125

but if you visit http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ it should say you are running: 14.0.0.145

testing so far, looks good so far