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Issue 685597 link

Starred by 6 users
Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 673199
Owner:
pastarmovj@chromium.org
Closed: Jan 2017
Cc:
tommycli@chromium.org
█ ericde@chromium.org
lafo...@chromium.org
xhw...@chromium.org
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome 56 always re-activates disabled flash plugin after restart

Reported by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Goto chrome://plugins/
2. Disable Adobe Flash Player
3. Restart Browser
4. Again check chrome://plugins/

What is the expected behavior?
Flash should stay disabled.

What went wrong?
Flash was enabled again (without user interaction) after the restart.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.76  Channel: stable
OS Version: Ubuntu 16.10
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

Worked before, behaviour started with Chrome 56.

Comment 1 by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 

Sorry forgot to choose - this should be:
"Type-Bug-Regression - Used to work, now broken"
and
"Did this work before? Yes - This is a regression"

Comment 2 by jviide...@gmail.com, Jan 26 2017 

It seems that this also applies to other plugins than Flash. My Flash, Widevine and Native Client all get re-enabled after a restart.

Comment 3 by dhw@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017

Cc: xhw...@chromium.org
Components: Internals>Plugins>Flash
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
@xhwang, is this a duplicate of  Issue 683379  ?

Comment 4 by xhw...@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017

Cc: tommycli@chromium.org ericde@chromium.org
I think this is related to  issue 615738 . But this seems to be different from what's described at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615738#c34

tommycli / ericde: Thoughts?

Comment 5 by tommycli@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017

Owner: pastarmovj@chromium.org
Adding Julian.

Comment 6 by ericde@google.com, Jan 26 2017 

no repro for me on Windows 56.0.2924.67 (non-policy).

Comment 7 by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 

I am using 56.0.2924.76 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.10:
Linux 4.8.0-34-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 21 17:24:18 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
and can reproduce

Comment 8 by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 

There is someone who can repro on Win 7:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html?showComment=1485386690233#c3154367030131754547

> Just updated to Chrome 56.0.2924.76 (64-bit/Win7)
> It automatically re-activates your flash plugin. ON EVERY RESTART.

Comment 9 by f.re...@gmail.com, Jan 26 2017 

Jep, that was me. 
Flash was disabled on my machine (Win7Pro 64bit) for a couple of years now. 
Since Chrome 56 update it gets re-enabled on every Chrome restart.

Comment 10 by xhw...@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017 

Can anyone that can repro show a screenshot of about://plugins? Thanks!

Comment 11 by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 

Screenshot attached
about_plugins.png
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Comment 12 by f.re...@gmail.com, Jan 26 2017 

This is how it looks after a Chrome restart:
Clipboard01.png
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Comment 13 by xhw...@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017 

Thank you both! Do you mind to click the "Details" link and share the screenshot again?

Comment 14 by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 

See attachment ;)
about_plugins_details.png
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Comment 15 by f.re...@gmail.com, Jan 26 2017 

Details extended:
Clipboard01.png
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Comment 16 by xhw...@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017

Cc: lafo...@chromium.org
Thanks again! So this has nothing to do with  issue 683379 .

Other owners might have better idea why this is happening.

Comment 17 by pastarmovj@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017

Mergedinto: 673199
Status: Duplicate (was: Untriaged)

Comment 18 by m.k...@irregular.at, Jan 26 2017 

I can't view 673199
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Reason: User is not allowed to view this issue"

Why?

Comment 19 by pastarmovj@chromium.org, Jan 26 2017 

Sorry the bug was mislabeled and made non-public. I fixed it.
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