[PLUG] If YouTube quit working in Chrome for you

MJang mike at linuxexam.com
Sat Feb 2 17:45:22 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 11:37 -0500, Fred James wrote:
> Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > Here's the issue and workaround:
> >
> >      Which version of Chrome? What is your CPU? IIRC, Pepper Flash is disabled, by default, on older CPUs.
> >
> >      Very, very similar thread here: Google Chrome - couldn't load plugin - shockwave flash and a link to
> >      code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=173790. It's still flagged as "unconfirmed" despite several me-toos.
> >          
> >      It's now "untriaged" but this comment explains the problem: "Unfortunately, 11.5.31.138 was pushed out via the component
> >      updater, and using plugins from the component updater doesn't work on Linux (and breaks stuff, due to the way plugins
> >      are loaded). :( So deleting ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash should fix things (unfortunately falling back to .137)
> >      ... and since we've stopped pushing .138, it won't reappear."
> >
> > So if your YouTube / flashcontent is broken  rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
> > will restore your video access.
> <rant> We used to joke (at my last job, and I do mean last) that ...
>      "We don't test!"
>      "We don't document!"

The noted rm -rf worked for me -- I found the thread yesterday afternoon
when I couldn't open a simple puzzle that I wanted to do after work --
(where I'm now testing and documenting the open source implementation of
SSO, now OpenAM).

Thanks,
Mike




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