Posted by Allan on Feb 8, 2010
Install Flash Player in Google Chrome Portable

Install Flash Player in Google Chrome Portable

I’m sure you already know what Google Chrome is. You may not know that Google Chrome has problems such as needing to be an admin to be installed, making it not very portable. Portable Apps is a software suite which tries to answer the problem of programs not being portable with its suite of applications that can be run from a USB flash drive. A big problem with it is that it only support GPL licensed applications. Since Google Chrome is not licensed under the GPL, some people have made an unofficial Portable Google Chrome version. This is a great thing, but it has one massive flaw – no flash. Heres a step by step solution for you to get flash running on your Google Chrome portable;

  1. Download the Flash Player .xpi format version from the official Adobe Flash site. http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
  2. Rename the resulting flashplayer-win.xpi file to flashplayer-win.zip and extract it using whatever you use for archiving work, such as WinZip or winRAR.
  3. Copy the archived flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll files into the following folder < ChromePath>\Chrome\plugins folder.
  4. When you relaunch Google Chrome portable you should be able to view flash content now. You can check if the flash plugin is installed correctly by typing about:plugins in the Chrome address bar.
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