Web-Player will not install on Google Chrome

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I've been trying for hours to get web-player to install on chrome and even though the installer goes through the process with no problems, it keeps on telling me that the unity web-player isn't installed.

It works perfectly on firefox and IE.. but not Chrome. I tried googling for the answer and could not find one that worked.

What could be going wrong? ;/

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Answer by Adam-Buckner · Dec 02, 2014 at 11:48 AM

Chrome is depreciating plug ins: http://blog.chromium.org/2014/11/the-final-countdown-for-npapi.html

More here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/npapi-deprecation?pli=1

And here: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

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Answer by kiffer · Apr 15, 2015 at 09:36 PM

,in Chrome v42 they have disabled the NPAPI support, but the good news is you can enable it again.

Paste this into chrome: chrome://flags/#enable-npapi
Hit activate on that item
also activate native-client underneath.
Bingo Unity works again :)

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Adam-Buckner ♦♦ · May 04, 2015 at 06:36 PM 1

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Don't forget to check the timeline published by Google re: the depreciation on NPAPI. Even tho' Unity's plugin is/was very heavily used Google intends to Kill and Remove all support for NPAPI, which means Unity's Web Player and many other plugins are not supported on Chrome.

Mid-term solution: Use another browser.

Long term solution: Start Using WebGL

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Answer by invadermissy · Feb 02, 2015 at 01:22 PM

It can support the the NPAPI plugins!

in chrome type: chrome://flags/

Go down and find Enable NPAPI Mac, Windows

Enable it and restart chrome.

fixed.

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jayseaCODE · Apr 16, 2015 at 01:10 AM 0

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This worked for me! This is the only way to go as Chrome is blocking plugins not being used a lot so you would have to approve experimental features in order to get unity web player to work. Remember to check chrome://plugins to see you have enabled unity player too.

Adam-Buckner ♦♦ · Apr 16, 2015 at 08:26 AM 0

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Dont forget to check the timeline published by google re: the depreciation. Even tho Unity's plugin is/was very heavily used, google intends to kill and remove this support as the year goes by.

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Answer by georgepro · Nov 30, 2012 at 11:27 AM

went to plug ins -manage exceptions -entered unity download address -and clicked allow-for some reason it is now working and appears on plug ins page

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Adam-Buckner ♦♦ · May 04, 2015 at 06:36 PM 0

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Don't forget to check the timeline published by Google re: the depreciation on NPAPI. Even tho' Unity's plugin is/was very heavily used Google intends to Kill and Remove all support for NPAPI, which means Unity's Web Player and many other plugins are not supported on Chrome.

Mid-term solution: Use another browser.

Long term solution: Start Using WebGL

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Answer by Adam-Buckner · Dec 01, 2014 at 12:21 PM

Chrome is moving to depreciate all web plugins in Chrome. These posts have more: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/04/29/on-the-future-of-web-publishing-in-unity/ http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/28/the-future-of-web-publishing-in-unity-an-update/ http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/14/first-unity-game-in-webgl-owlchemy-labs-conversion-of-aaaaa-to-asm-js/

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