Adobe Flash Player how to enable?

Many Internet surfers often meet with the fact that video clips are not played on visited resources, it is impossible to launch online flash games, multimedia content of the pages is displayed incorrectly, etc. The reason for this is the missing or deactivated plug-in Adobe Flash Player. How can I enable it in different browsers, and at the same time eliminate some problems with its work? This will be discussed later in the article.

Why does the Adobe Flash Player plugin not work?

The plug-in belongs to that category of add-ons, which have almost a primary impact on the playback of multimedia content on web resources. In some browsers, its presence is assumed initially (Google Chrome), in other programs, the installation of the extension needs to be done additionally.

However, even if this add-in is available in the system, it may not work correctly or not at all. The reasons usually are:

• Incorrect installation or damage to plug-in files;
• Accidental or intentional deactivation;
• Lack of updates.

Let's leave for now the problems associated with the player's inoperability and its update, and we will dwell on the issues of its inclusion in the most popular browsers. Immediately it is worth mentioning that the activation of the add-in in all programs, without exception, is almost identical (only the names of the menus and sections of the corresponding settings differ).

Adobe Flash Player: How to enable the plug-in in Google Chrome browser

Access to extensions in one of the most revered browsers called Google Chrome is carried out through the address bar, where depending on the software version, two types of commands can be prescribed: either chrome: plugins or about: plugins.

In the plug-in window, you should find the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and click on the "Enable" hyperlink, which is just below the name. You can also tick the "Allow always" check box so that when you open the corresponding content on the web resource, the program does not constantly prompt the user to play content.

Activating the extension in the Mozilla Firefox browser

As for the question of how to enable the Adobe Flash Player plug-in in the Firefox browser, and everything is simple.

Access to the corresponding add-ons is made in the menu called by pressing the button with three horizontal dashes in the panel at the top right, where the add-on icon is selected (access to this section can also be obtained by typing the command about: addons in the address bar). In the new window, the plugins menu is selected, where all available modules are listed in the list. We find the corresponding module. Enable the Adobe Flash Player or use the Adobe Shockwave element using the drop-down menu to the right. Here you must select the "Always on" option.

Enabling the add-on in the Opera browser

Now a few words about another popular browser called Opera. You can enable the Adobe Flash Player plug-in through the main menu, which is called by clicking the button with the name of the browser on the top left.

Here you select the line of the transition to the settings. In the new window on the left there is a section "Websites". After accessing it, you need to find a block of plug-ins and use a hyperlink to disconnect some of them, which is just below the control button. Again, here you need to find the Adobe Flash Player add-in. How do I enable the extension? Yes, just like in other browsers - just click on the appropriate control (the "Enable" button).

Separately it is necessary to say that some sections in different versions of the browser may be missing, and sometimes access to the configuration of plug-ins can be obtained from other menus. But in general this does not affect the situation.

Upgrade Questions

With the inclusion sorted out. Note, after activating the plug-in in any browser, the browser will need to be restarted. But what to do when the extension seems to have an active status (enabled), and the plug-in itself does not work? It's all a hitch in the absence of updates.

As a rule, with the initial installation of the player, the system also integrates its own update tool, which, if there is a permanent connection to the Internet, monitors the release of new versions of the plug-in.

If the updater issues a notification that the update is ready for the installation, it is better to immediately agree, go to the official site and download the latest release of the add-on. After that, however, you must manually install it using the downloaded installation file.

But even here everything is not as simple as it seems. The fact is that the installation process for the update has almost nothing to do with it, since it does not update the old version, but only the installation of a new one, and often not even over the existing modification, but in parallel with it. In turn, this can cause conflicts.

Therefore, before installing a fresh release, you should completely remove the old version. You can do this from the section of programs and components present in the Control Panel, or use specialized utilities such as iObit Uninstaller, whose advantage is that they are able to delete both residual program files and corresponding system registry keys that can remain after removal The main components of applications.

And only after that you can install the extension, then make sure it works, checking the settings in the appropriate browsers.

Conclusion

That's all, as for the plug-in Adobe Flash Player. How to turn it on, it seems, is already clear. Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Edge and programs based on Google Chrome (Chromium, Yandex Browser, Amigo, etc.) were not considered here. There are no principal differences in the methods of activating the Adobe Flash Player add-on. Mostly the differences concern only the names of the menus and the location of some controls. In all other respects, no user should have problems.

As for the updates, it is best to follow the recommendations given and before removing the old version, remove all obsolete modifications. In addition, if for some reason the download of the plug-in is impossible, you can download the distribution from the official site through proxy-anonymizers on the Internet or change your location in the browser or geolocation settings manually.