Testing on Chrome with flash

Question

I'm doing automated tests with Chrome.

Part of my suite needs flash to be activated (sight...).

I'm struggling to activate it. Here's what I got:

If I open a regular chrome session, with Flash checked in chrome://plugins, it works there:

When the tests start, the command line executed is:

▶ ps -edf | grep chrome
augustin 24752 24743  2 12:12 pts/0    00:00:07 /opt/google/chrome/chrome --user-data-dir=/tmp/karma-22735678 --no-default-browser-check --no-first-run --disable-default-apps --disable-popup-blocking --disable-translate --disable-background-timer-throttling http://test.example.com:8080/?id=22735678

I always get Download failed or sometimes flash version outdated.

Even if I check flash in plugins and reload, even if I allow it specifically for this tab and refresh:

I tried several command line options:

• --always-authorize-plugins from there
• --enable-plugins from there

without sucess. :(

Thanks for the help

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EDIT:

If I click on + details in chrome://plugins, I can see that in a regular session, Location is set to /home/augustin/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/23.0.0.207/libpepflashplayer.so , while, in the command-lined open I get: Location: internal-not-yet-present

This might be the explanation, though I still don't know how to fix it.

Answer 1

I made it by copying the content of /home/augustin/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/* into /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash, chmod -r +rx /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash and then adding the following flags to the launcher :

    customLaunchers: {
        Chrome_plugins: {
            base: 'Chrome',
            flags: ['--ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/23.0.0.207/libpepflashplayer.so', '--enable-plugins', '--always-authorize-plugins']
        }
    },

Not very plug&play, neither compatible with other laptops, but at least works.

A more robust solution would be welcome!