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