I can't get adobe flash player to work.  I have tried just about everything.

edcar112@comcast.net
Edwin Carroll

You'll sometimes have to manually enable the flash objects by clicking the Padlock or the "I" icon near the URL link. That in my opinion would be the workaround on many occasions.

@edcar112 : I've tried chrome M59.0.3071.86 on mac, and tried tv.comcast.com.

REPRO : (note : chrome://settings/content shows Flash set to "Ask First", with no exceptions [block/allow] for xfinity.com).
1. browse to https://tv.xfinity.com
2. get redir'd to https://tv.xfinity.com/adding-device, which tells me about a Flash compatibility issue (expected, since flash isn't showing up in navigator.plugins or mimetypes)
3. click on "Download the latest version of Flash"
4. in permissions dialog that pops up ("tv.xfinity.com wants to Run Flash"), click "allow". 
5. page refreshes, content plays.

is there a specific url that is not working for you? also, could you please tell us the chrome version (in chrome://version), as well as the Flash setting (chrome://settings/content, under Flash).

There is a particular issue with Chrome 60 launched 1st of August - even if you Allow flash content, it only plays first movie and blocks the next one. 
One needs to set also chrome://flags/#run-all-flash-in-allow-mode to "Allow" or chrome://flags/#prefer-html-over-flash  to Disabled   to make it work as usual - all Flash content enabled.  It is affecting many users and it is a bit tricky to non technical users to manually perform those Flag settings. Would that behavior be fixed soon or in next Chrome 61 in September ?

@nikolov1969 : when I browse to tv.xfinity.com (I'm on 60.0.3112.113), I see the attached the first time I try to watch content. after clicking on the "click to enable Flash Player", I see the permission prompt in the upper left to ALLOW or BLOCK flash. After clicking allow, I have no issues playing live or movie playback (watched live Tottenham football match, as well as "Avatar" on-demand). 

there was a short period of time where the xfinity site had a very small swf that was blocked regardless back in AUG - I think that's been fixed by xfinity now. 

Can you try again?

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This is now in standard google chrome version, not just canary version.

chrome://flags/#run-all-flash-in-allow-mode and chrome://flags/#prefer-html-over-flash are not options that exist anymore, so there is no way to fix the problem. 

The only way I can watch anything from WatchTVAnywhere (a live stream of the TV channels I pay for) are only watchable through FIREFOX.

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Also, incognito mode is ignoring the setting to automatically run Flash on all sites without asking. It will only download .swf files, never play them. Some have said the above mentioned removed flags fixed this for them.

Hi,

It looks like this issue is because of Adobe's announcement that they will no longer support Flash (https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/), not sure if this is really the root cause, but is there any other possible reason for this issue or any other work around that we can offer the customers since the deprecation is not until 2020? Flash is no longer working for a number of websites starting around version 60 and we are getting more reports of more websites getting affected as the version update progresses.

Any update or clarification on this bug report will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

there are multiple potential issues here that may need to be teased out. I cannot repro the original issue reported, and have no means to reproduce the issue noted in c#8 (watchtvanywhere). and incognito mode issue mentioned in #9 I believe is by design - no settings persisted for incognito mode.

I recommend we close this bug as I don't think there's anything actionable remaining unless we can repro the issue.

Could you take a look at this one? It's sort of an extension of this.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=767342