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In ' Manage Chrome browser updates on Windows' the company says:Ĭhrome Component Updater allows the Chrome engineering team to release small updates to parts of Chrome on a very rapid schedule. It turns out that Google's component updating system is separate and distinct from their legacy updating system (the two scheduled tasks).

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This made me re-read the Google announcement and notice that it says Flash will be updated with the 'component update system'. It seems the process cannot be started manually but checks on its own every five hours and requires Chrome to be running'. Someone who identified themselves as 'Der Moloch' left a comment at Google's blog posting about updating Chrome to Flash version 11.9.900.117 that said 'The component update system is very obscure.

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Update: 3PM ET: Four days after the latest Flash was released, the Firefox auto-installation of the Flash Player still tries and fails to install the old version. It seems both browsers are behind the times. The installation failed (this was on Oct 11th) and, it's a good thing it did, as Firefox tried to install the old version of Flash rather than the latest version.

To install Flash for Firefox I went to the main Adobe tester page, got the notice that the plugin was missing and let Firefox 24 automatically install it. I try to limit myself to a single copy of Flash, so the Firefox plugin and the Internet Explorer ActiveX editions are normally not installed. Speaking of Firefox, it too had a problem installing Flash. Since the Adobe article does not say when it was written, when it was last updated or when it was last reviewed, I can only assume that back in the 1970s Chrome did work that way. Adobe was wrong, Chrome does not fall back, it complains that Flash is disabled. So, I installed the latest Flash for Firefox and disabled Flash in Chrome. Then I made the mistake of trusting Adobe.Īn article on their web site, Flash Player with Google Chrome, says 'If the built-in Flash Player in Chrome is disabled, Chrome uses the downloaded plug-in version of Flash Player if it is installed on the user’s system'. Still, however, Chrome was using the old version of Flash.

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On another Windows 7 computer the history of scheduled tasks was enabled and it showed both tasks had been happily chugging along. Manually running this task also failed to update Flash.

The hourly task is called 'GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-3588425011-2520465182-2943837927-1004UA' and it runs the same GoogleUpdate.exe program only without any parameters. I force it to run by right clicking on the task. All web browser users can check on the latest version of Flash, as well as their installed version, at two Adobe tester pages: /software/flash/about and /flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html

Bill Clinton must have been right, there are multiple definitions of 'is', because it certainly is not up to date.Ĭhrome considers Flash a 'plugin' and Chrome users can see the version of installed plugins by entering either 'chrome://plugins' or 'about:plugins' in the address bar. This, despite the fact that Chrome reports that it is up to date (version. Yet, here I sit three (going on four by the time this was published) days later with Chrome on Windows 7 still using the old version (11.8.800.170) of Flash.

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That same day Google announced that 'We are updating Flash Player to version 11.9.900.117 on Windows and Mac via our component update system (i.e. Three days ago, on October 8th, Adobe released a new copy of the Flash player, version 11.9.900.117 (see the Release Notes and Announcement).

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