Fixed the problem of Adobe Flash Player of Chromium in Ubuntu 14.04.

Fixed the problem of Adobe Flash Player of Chromium in Ubuntu 14.04.

After Ubuntu 14.04 is installed, install Adobe Flash Player first. In general, if Ubuntu Restricted Extras is installed, Flash Player should work and You should be able to watch online videos, such as You Tube and other websites.

In fact, this is not because Chromium is used on Ubuntu 14.04. When You use other Web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, You can easily play videos on websites such as You Tube. However, in Chromium, You will see notifications about the missing plug-ins of Adobe Flash player:

Adobe Flash Player is required to display some elements on this page. Install plug-in..

Download, install, and configure Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 system:

Ubuntu 14.04 text tutorial on hard drive installation in Windows 7

Install the Chromium browser on Ubuntu 14.04 and add the Flash plug-in Pepper Flash Player.

Only the causes of flash player problems in Chromium are as follows:

This problem occurs only in Chromium because Chromium used the Netscape Plugin API framework to support Flash. From Ubuntu 14.04, Chromium will stop using the Netscape Plugin API. Therefore, we encountered the problem of Chromium Adobe Flash Player.

So why is this problem not found in other browsers? The answer is because they use Flash Player 11.2.

Fixed the problem of Adobe Flash Player on Chromium:

To solve this problem, we should use Pepper Flash Player, a Flash Player from a safer and more stable version of Google. The source of Ubuntu 14.04 contains the Adobe Flash Player Pepper installer. This installer downloads Google Chrome, extracts Pepper Flash Player, and sets it to Chromium.

To install Pepper Flash Player on Ubuntu 14.04, open a terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfreesudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

Then restart Chromium. You do not need to restart the system. I hope this post will help you solve the problem of Adobe Flash Player on Chromium. You are welcome to raise any questions or suggestions.

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