| Issue 4346: | The flash player plugin does not install when launched using Chrome | |
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What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Install Chrome on a machine without Flash Player. 2. Navigate to a website which needs Flash like rediff.com 3. Attempt to install the plugin via the Install Plugin Infobar. What is the expected output? Expect to see Flash player install. What do you see instead? Nothing. If you look at TaskManager, we can see the install_flash_player.exe running, but not doing anything. |
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Nov 12, 2008
I have experienced the exact same behavior. Windows XP, official chrome beta, but the user was not administrator. install_flash_player.exe was just there, running on the background but doing nothing. |
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Nov 12, 2008
New Revision: 5306 Log: Pass in SW_SHOW to ShellExecuteEx as the plugin installers can rely on this flag for displaying UI. The latest flash player installer needs this. Launching this exe without this flag causes the exe to just wait around doing nothing. As part of this CB we also pass in the current directory in SHELLEXECUTEINFO. This is set to the directory where the plugin installer is downloaded. This fixes http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4346. Bug=4346 R=nsylvain Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/10650
Status: Fixed
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Nov 19, 2008
A week later - I just today installed Chrome and am having the same problem with plugins failing to install; most notably Flash |
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Nov 22, 2008
hello ananta: could you explain it clearer? (i'm not a programmer |
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Nov 23, 2008
The plugin installer is launched by Chrome. However it expects to be passed some information indicating that it is ok to display UI for the install. Chrome was not passing that information while launching the installer. This used to work fine for the Flash 9 installer. However the latest Flash installer which installs Flash 10 relies on this information being passed in. This fix should be available in the next Chrome Beta update. |
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Dec 23, 2008
I have installed Chrome on Vista for the first time today (23Dec2008)... the behaviour I've observed when trying to download the Flash plug-in is as described in the original description of this problem... The status of "Fixed" appears to be premature. |
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Dec 23, 2008
When EnableLUA=1(UAC on), Flash10 can be installed through Admin and NonAdmin(using admin privileges) accounts When EnableLUA=0(UAC off), Flash10 can be installed through Admin account but not through NonAdmin(no privilege) account When EnableLUA=2(UAC on), Flash10 can be installed through Admin and NonAdmin(using admin privileges) accounts j.peter.boudreau: Can you please record a video of what exactly happens and attach it here? Thanks.
Cc: anan...@chromium.org
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Dec 24, 2008
Hi, Please see screen shot attachments in numbered order. Cheers, Peter |
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Dec 24, 2008
Can you please tell us which version of Vista and the service pack you have along with the UAC setting information? |
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Dec 24, 2008
Sure, I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium... I've not installed SP1 yet. UAC has always been turned on, and it did prompt me before attempting to install Adobe Flash, and I gave it permission to proceed, after which, as I describe above, nothing more seemed to happen. Peter |
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Dec 24, 2008
I've now gotten the Adobe Flash plugin to install in Chrome... If you look at attachment "screenShot01" in "Comment 8" above, you'll see it is also possible to request the plugin to be installed by clicking a button in the upper right-hand corner (while this should be equivalent to clicking the original link I clicked, it is not)... I tried with that upper right-hand corner button and, following UAC permission granting, the installation completed... It seems there's a bug here, but at least it has a simple work-around for now! Cheers, Peter |
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