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# Using Pepper Flash Plugin
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Electron supports the Pepper Flash plugin. To use the Pepper Flash plugin in
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Electron, you should manually specify the location of the Pepper Flash plugin
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and then enable it in your application.
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## Prepare a Copy of Flash Plugin
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On macOS and Linux, the details of the Pepper Flash plugin can be found by
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navigating to `chrome://plugins` in the Chrome browser. Its location and version
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are useful for Electron's Pepper Flash support. You can also copy it to another
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location.
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## Add Electron Switch
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You can directly add `--ppapi-flash-path` and `--ppapi-flash-version` to the
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Electron command line or by using the `app.commandLine.appendSwitch` method
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before the app ready event. Also, turn on `plugins` option of `BrowserWindow`.
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For example:
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```javascript
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const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
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const path = require('path')
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// Specify flash path, supposing it is placed in the same directory with main.js.
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let pluginName
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switch (process.platform) {
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case 'win32':
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pluginName = 'pepflashplayer.dll'
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break
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case 'darwin':
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pluginName = 'PepperFlashPlayer.plugin'
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break
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case 'linux':
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pluginName = 'libpepflashplayer.so'
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break
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}
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app.commandLine.appendSwitch('ppapi-flash-path', path.join(__dirname, pluginName))
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// Optional: Specify flash version, for example, v17.0.0.169
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app.commandLine.appendSwitch('ppapi-flash-version', '17.0.0.169')
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app.on('ready', () => {
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let win = new BrowserWindow({
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width: 800,
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height: 600,
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webPreferences: {
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plugins: true
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}
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})
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win.loadURL(`file://${__dirname}/index.html`)
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// Something else
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})
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```
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You can also try loading the system wide Pepper Flash plugin instead of shipping
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the plugins yourself, its path can be received by calling
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`app.getPath('pepperFlashSystemPlugin')`.
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## Enable Flash Plugin in a `<webview>` Tag
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Add `plugins` attribute to `<webview>` tag.
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```html
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<webview src="http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/" plugins></webview>
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```
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## Troubleshooting
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You can check if Pepper Flash plugin was loaded by inspecting
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`navigator.plugins` in the console of devtools (although you can't know if the
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plugin's path is correct).
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The architecture of Pepper Flash plugin has to match Electron's one. On Windows,
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a common error is to use 32bit version of Flash plugin against 64bit version of
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Electron.
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On Windows the path passed to `--ppapi-flash-path` has to use `\` as path
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delimiter, using POSIX-style paths will not work.
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