Help with the Web Player

I haven't been able to find a proper place to ask this, so I hope it's ok to do it here!

Several Facebook games I'm playing use the Unity Web Player. I recently reformatted, and installed the web player, and everything went fine. Well, every time I restart, none of the games will load, and will in fact freeze Chrome if I click on them. To fix this, I have to force Chrome and all open Chrome-related applications (Hangouts, Google Now), reinstall the web player, and reopen Chrome. After that, everything works perfectly.

Until I restart again, and have to repeat the entire process over. It's starting to get extremely tedious, and I can't figure out what would be causing this. I've tried installing with admin privileges, making sure nothing is blocking it from running, checking extensions...but I can't find the problem. Has anyone ever run into this and solved it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

Doesn't really surprise me. Chrome is losing support soon for plugins (NPAPI) and this means the Web Player will cease functioning. Chances are something they introduced in the early phase for this removal (automatically disabled plugins, but can be temporarily enabled) is causing the problem.

 

Does that mean it's irreparable? I'm on Windows 7, and I formatted back to Windows 7, so I was confused as to what changed over the course of a half hour or so. :-/

 

on chrome you have to add permision to play Unity Web Player games, just use FF

 

Guys don't use technical terms because OP is not a developer, but probably a casual player which is understandable.

@greycobalt If you really want to play Unity Web Player games I would suggest you switch to another browser like Firefox. As far as I know it still supports it.

But nothing to worry about as there is going to be a replacement for Unity Web Player plugin - WebGL, which would allow users to play Unity games without any plugins

 

I appreciate the save, I have no idea about most of what I'm seeing on here. I may just end up using Firefox for the two games I play that use it, I was just hoping there was something simple I was missing. Guess not! How long do you think until WebGL is out in the wild?

 

It will take quite a time because apart from WebGL support there are many other features coming out.

 

Switching to Firefox may only be a short term solution. Firefox is going to be treating plug-ins as legacy and the current nightly (aka development) release of Firefox finally has some early stages showing this.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/01/24/mozilla-adds-npapi-plug-in-sandbox-to-firefox/

Plugins should keep working for now with Firefox and, if you don't use it for anything else, you could always install it and switch off automatic updates.

 

I'm surprised it's getting that serious, you'd think the game developers would start noticing their user base drop off sharply.

 

It should only affect game developers in the short term. We are basically migrating from one technology (NPAPI plug-ins) to another technology (WebGL). The plug-in approach is being replaced primarily because it is a security risk.

How it affects gamers might be a bit different as developers will need to make adjustments to their games. Some may simply decide not to do so and the game will no longer work outside of plug-in supported browsers.

 

You can use internet explorer. For all it's problems I've found it to run the web player the most reliably.