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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 685897
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Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome cannot download Flash (China) and doesn't provide feedback

Reported by jeremy.j...@gmail.com, Oct 19 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.59 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Issue experienced from China

1. Install Clean Chrome 54 (Remove any existing user/system Flash) - may be downloaded from https://www.google.cn/chrome/browser/?standalone=1
2. Open a website with Flash Content (The Flash content may not be displayed, may be an audio feature)

What is the expected behavior?
- Either Chrome will download Flash and play the content.
- Or Chrome will provide a meaningful feedback to the user and a way to download the Flash player (from adobe website ?).

What went wrong?
Nothing happens

- Chrome cannot download Flash
- Flash plugin may not be displayed to show a "download failed" message (which is not helpful anyway)
- Flash plugin is advertised to be present, so javascript would provide link to download Flash

From user point of view, it's just stuck doing nothing.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 54.0.2840.59  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0
 
Cc: rbasuvula@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Unable to access the URL provided in the issue, could you please provide us a valid URL where the issue is observed which would help us to triage the issue further..

Thanks in Advance.
Alternative Chrome download link: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html?standalone=1
Note: If you are able to access google.com, you will probably NOT be able to reproduce the issue.

To reproduce the issue, any connection to *.google.com should be blocked.

Example of website with Flash content: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc2NzkzOTk2NA==.html

Comment 3 by grt@chromium.org, Oct 24 2016

Components: -Internals>Installer Internals>Installer>Components Internals>Plugins>Flash
Owner: waff...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 4 Deleted

Status: Assigned (was: Started)
No component updates (or updates in general) are currently working in CN; therefore Flash will not work in this region. To enable updates, we have to transition updates to use one of the China-whitelisted domain names. It's unclear whether or not this will be allowed under our current agreements, I will look into this.

As a workaround, users in CN may install system Flash (https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/).
Mergedinto: 685897
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)

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