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Chrome keeps telling me to update flash player, but nothing happens


I've recently switched to Chrome as my default browser. Ever since, I always get notifications to update flash player, the official adobe installer launches, I hit download, and nothing happens.

What is going on? How do I stop this from happening? How do I get flash updated? When I go to chrome://components/ and click update on Flash I get "component not updated". Any ideas?

I do use Chrome on OS X and also on windows. I don't have any issues on windows, but on mac I always get these update prompt.


Solution

  • I downloaded the uninstaller for flash from here and used it to uninstall from my system. Chrome seems to run its own instance of Flash, so that seemed to work so far.