As a quick follow-up article to the
Adobe Flash 10.2 beta announcement, we thought we'd show you how to disable Google Chrome's built-in Flash plug-in so that you can use a pre-release build like the 10.2 beta. It's a quick and simple process, but please remember that once you've disabled Chrome's built-in Flash you won't get the benefit of Chrome's internal Flash updates.
1. Download the Flash plug-in that you'd like to use with Chrome (
10.2 can be found here).
2. Fire up Chrome and type
about:plugins into the address bar; hit enter.
3. Click on
Details in the top right of the window to expand the plug-in details.
4. Find the Flash plug-in that's listed as being in the Chrome directory and hit
Disable (shown above).
5. Check which version of Flash you have
by heading here.
That's it -- now you can jump on over to
Adobe's Stage Video demo and watch as your CPU basically idles as you play HD video. If you want to reverse the procedure, just re-enable Chrome's built-in Flash plug-in and it'll take priority over the pre-release version.
Tags: Adobe, browsers, Chrome, Flash, Flash 10.2, Flash10.2, google, Linux, OS X, OsX, video, Windows
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Subscribe to commentsminibarDec 3rd 2010 2:48PM
give credit where credit is due.
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/12/01/adobe-flash-player-10-2-beta-brings-greater-hardware-acceleratio/#
seriously. it's not like it's the first time, but i always credit dls and/or posters. sometimes i just feel like i'm not getting any credit for paying your bills. no credit whatsoever? rly? welcome to dls. whatev.
DominicDec 3rd 2010 2:54PM
Chrome (Canary and stable builds) says "missing plugin" at the About Adobe page. IE 9 Beta shows 10.2 is installed ok. I disabled internal flash within "about:plugins". I uninstalled / reinstalled flash with same results. Anyone else having any luck with 10.2 on Chrome?
jayblesDec 4th 2010 10:27PM
@Dominic I had the same problem but I solved it by closing, then restarting chrome, go back to about:plugins, and disable the flash in chrome directory again. You might have figured it out by now but for others that come across this, I figured I'd leave this here.
Kurdistan wellatJan 9th 2011 6:36AM
Thanx, this is an good one.