How to Update Adobe Flash in Chrome Browser

How to Update Adobe Flash in Chrome Browser

The Chrome web browser is perhaps best suited for running Adobe Flash because Chrome sandboxes the Flash player plugin, making it a bit more secure.

While Google Chrome should automatically update the Adobe Flash plugin itself when the browser app is relaunched, sometimes Adobe Flash Player may become out of date anyway and require the user to manually update the Flash plugin.

This tutorial will walk through how to manually update Adobe Flash Player within the Google Chrome browser. Typically just periodically quitting and relaunching Google Chrome will update the Adobe Flash Player plugin on its own and without any user acknowledgment.

However this doesnt always happen. Sometimes you may see a yellow banner at the top of the screen saying Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date. or $1 was blocked because it is out of date. to indicate the plugin must be updated. A similar message will appear if Flash is out of date too. But, were focusing on Chrome here so lets figure out how to resolve that blocked out of date plugin message in all Chrome browsers.

This updates the Adobe Flash Player plugin in the Chrome web browser, this is demonstrated in Mac OS but it works the same in Windows too. Its important to keep Flash Player up to date if youre going to use the Flash plug-in or have it installed, whether its in Chrome or in another web browser. Personally, I only use the Adobe Flash plugin within the Chrome sandbox environment, and I do not install Flash (or any other plugins) into Safari. This allows a user to in general but still retain Flash playing capabilities within the Google Chrome web browser sandboxed environment. In practice, this means when I want or need to use Flash Player for whatever reason, I use Chrome for those Flash websites. Of course you can also specifically too, but if you use click-to-play and keep Flash up to date, and keep Chrome up to date, its not really necessary to turn the plugin off completely within Chrome.