Google-chrome – Flash Player in Chrome isn’t working

If you are using 64 bit ubuntu, try following the guide here : http://nxadm.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/install-64-bit-adobe-flash-player-on-ubuntu-904/

If not, have you tried installing the flash plugin from the terminal ? Try running this from the terminal (you need to enable Canonical Partner sources from synaptic > settings > repositories > other software > Canonical partners for this):

sudo apt-get update    
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin

and also i would recommend uninstalling gnash in this case using

sudo apt-get remove gnash
sudo apt-get autoremove

There are a couple of links you may want to look at for background:

• The road to safer, more stable, and flashier Flash and
• Explaining the confusion over Flash versions

Re. which version of Flash will be used ... there again there are changes (coming). Google plans to block all NPAPI plugins: Saying Goodbye to Our Old Friend NPAPI. So that won't be an issue in 2014. Quite sometime ago, I recollect that if two plugins were available, they would not have the same "priority" and so the one with the higher priority would run. For an oldish view on the topic, look at Why are Two Flash Player Plugins Running In Google Chrome?.

Re. which one you should disable ... I'd suggest not bothering unless you have a problem with the PPAPI one. It's not that both would be consuming resources when you watch Flash content.

(For Linux users ...
Adobe will only provide "security" updates for Flash on Linux. So 11.2.202 was the "final" full version of the NPAPI version.

Google, in collaboration with Adobe, will provide the PPAPI version of Flash for Linux.)