After my last blog, about recent updates to the Flash Player, a reader was nice enough to pass along a tip that I am now passing along to you.

I track updates to the Flash Player on my FlashTester.org site, and a number of times Chrome has been late installing an update. The browser would report that it was up to date, yet Flash would be a release behind. My last blog mentioned the helplessness of Chrome users to force an update to Flash. It turns out, we are not helpless.

In addition to the standard, well-known mechanism, shown below, for updating Chrome (hamburger menu -> Help -> About Google Chrome), Google has a second system that they sometimes use for Flash.

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