Ubuntu – How come I can’t access Youtube videos on Chrome in Ubuntu

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When I try to watch Youtube videos in Google Chrome on Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal, I get the following "Couldn't load plugin." message.

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I tried to go to "Wrench" -> Tools -> Task Manager in Google Chrome, close the Shockwave process, and reload the page with the Youtube video, but the problem persists.

Am I missing a plugin? What is erring?

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Update:

Thanks everyone! You're awesome.

After a while I finally solved the problem. After going to chrome://plugins, I found that I had a mysterious plugin called libpepflashplayer. I disabled it, and now, I can play Youtube videos. Here's how my chrome://plugins settings look like now.

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However, is this a good way to solve the problem? Is there a deeper problem I may be having? Like my Chrome browser not updating correctly?

Best Answer

I'm using a different version but maybe this helps you anyways.

I had this problem with the latest dev channel. Version 26.0.1397.2 dev

I fixed it by deleting the folder PepperFlash in .config/google-chrome/ and .config/google-chrome/Default/Pepper\ Data/, for some reason there is a copy of of the .so file for the pepper flash plugin, which is not really needed because there original copy on /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/ should be loaded as well which may be causing a conflict or something.

Make sure to backup your whole .config/google-chrome/ folder just in case.

I don't use the standalone flash package anymore, just the pepper flash version included with Chrome, just in case you are wondering.

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