flashplugin installer works for firefox but not chromium-browser

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Published on 2014-08-24T04:17:57Z Indexed on 2014/08/24 4:32 UTC
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I'm on Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS) and I do have flashplugin-installer installed. When I click on flash videos in chromium-browser I get "An error occurred, please try again later". In firefox they display fine.

I opened chrome://plugins to see if the flash plugin is installed and indeed it's not listed. Also http://www.codegeek.net/flash-version.php displays: "You do not have Flash player installed", while with firefox it says: You have Flash player 11.2.202 installed.

Following some instructions on some ubuntu page I copied the plugin using sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/ and I started chromium using chromium-browser --enable-plugins but this didn't help.

chrome://chrome/ says: Version 36.0.1985.125 Ubuntu 12.04 (283153).

what else can I try?

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