How do I install the Flash debug player in Chrome?

Question

Chrome comes bundled with Flash now… Great, but how do I install the Flash debug player?

Answer 1

As of April 2015 the NPAPI plugins won't work in Chrome. And for some reason I was not able to get the Adobe "Install Adobe Pepper Flash Player Debugger.app" installer to correctly update Chrome on OSX. The installer would run but would not update Chrome.

If you find yourself in this situation you might try the following...

My hacky solution (after much frustration) was just to end-run around the installer and chrome to manually copy the installed plugin from where the installer was putting it, into the place chrome was expecting it.

The installer was placing here:

 /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/PepperFlashPlayer/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin

Chrome was looking for it here:

/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/42.0.2311.90/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Internet Plug-Ins/PepperFlash/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin

All I did was replace the bundled installed non-debug version of pepper flash with the one debug version installed by the player. This seemed to fix the problem.

YMMV