{"id":22273,"date":"2017-10-17T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=22273"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:27:58","slug":"shockwave-flash-crashes-vsphere-web-client-6-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/shockwave-flash-crashes-vsphere-web-client-6-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Shockwave Flash crashes with vSphere Web Client 6.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22274 size-full\" title=\"flashplugincrash01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/flashplugincrash01.jpg\" alt=\"flashplugincrash01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Due to a recent <strong>update of Chrome browser<\/strong> (same error occurs also in Firefox), when you open the vSphere Web Client 6.5 (Flash-based) the loved Adobe Flash plugin crashes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a big problem since you are <strong>no longer able to open<\/strong> the vSphere Web Client 6.5. The HTML5 vSphere Client is not affected but some features are still unavailable compared to Flash version.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22284 size-large\" title=\"flashplugincrash02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/flashplugincrash02-600x365.jpg\" alt=\"flashplugincrash02\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/theVelement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/u\/theVelement<\/a>\u00a0found a nice workaround to fix this issue.\u00a0From Windows, navigate to <strong>%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\PepperFlash<\/strong>\u00a0and locate the folder called <strong>27.0.0.170<\/strong> that is the new Flash version.<\/p>\n<p>If you also\u00a0have a folder with a different number such as 27.0.0.159, <strong>copy the content<\/strong> from this folder to the 27.0.0.170 overwriting the content or just <strong>delete the 27.0.0.170<\/strong> folder. This should fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22279 size-large\" title=\"flashplugincrash03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/flashplugincrash03-600x166.jpg\" alt=\"flashplugincrash03\" width=\"600\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don't have a previous version of Flash, <strong>copy it from another computer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You should <strong>disable Chrome auto update<\/strong> to prevent the automatic re-installation of the buggy Flash version by editing the <strong>Windows Registry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22301 size-large\" title=\"flashplugincrash04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/flashplugincrash04-600x317.jpg\" alt=\"flashplugincrash04\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flash-based client has been already <strong>deprecated by VMware<\/strong> and we are waiting for the fully working HTML5 client that should be released soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a recent update of Chrome browser (same error occurs also in Firefox), when you open the vSphere Web Client 6.5 (Flash-based) the loved Adobe Flash plugin crashes. This is a big problem since you are no longer able to open the vSphere Web Client 6.5. The HTML5 vSphere Client is not affected but some features are still unavailable compared to Flash version. A Reddit user \/u\/theVelement\u00a0found a nice workaround to fix this issue.\u00a0From Windows, navigate to %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\PepperFlash\u00a0and locate the folder called 27.0.0.170 that is the new Flash version. If you also\u00a0have a folder with a different number <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[1802,964,1399],"class_list":["post-22273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-crash","tag-flash-en","tag-web-client-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}