Chrome: // plugins url no longer works
When setting up a new Windows 10 laptop, I installed the latest version of the Chrome browser.
Anyway, when I go to the chrome: // url, instead of showing the plugins settings page, it gives me the message:
This site can’t be reached
The webpage at chrome://plugins/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_INVALID_URL
Here's the version information for Chrome, from chrome: // version:
Google Chrome 57.0.2987.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 11f66db67ea1f20d200d6f9add50fc1c345d71f7-refs/branch-heads/2987@{#832}
OS Windows
JavaScript V8 5.7.492.65
Flash 25.0.0.127 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer64_25_0_0_127.dll
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.110 Safari/537.36
Command Line "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
My question is, does anyone know why the chrome: // url no longer works, and how can I get its current equivalent, if at all?
The reason I need to access is because I am trying to get the Flash Debug Player to work. I think I need to disable the pre-installed non-debug one.
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chrome: // plugins were removed in Chrome 57. Here is the job in which it was removed.
From a related assignment:
Goal: Remove the chrome: // plugins page by moving the config for the last remaining plugin, Flash Player, so that it has an explicit place in the content settings (including the option in settings to disable).
Rationale: This change should make the controls for Flash Player more accessible in preferences (that is, most users probably know what Flash is, but not what a "plugin" is), and consolidates the modes associated with Flash Player (eg , plug-in Power saving mode) in one place.
Rationale support: Since we have deprecated NPAPI, Flash Player is now our last remaining plugin (i.e. third party binaries). Those remaining "plugins" (PDF, CDM, etc.) started out as third-party code, but have since been created and maintained by Google ... and for now they are just specialized libraries for Chrome.
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