Please provide an installer (or adapt the existing) for flashplayer 10.3 for people with cpus without sse2. According to https://www.adobe.com/support/programs/policies/supported.html 10.3 is still supported by adobe (which means it gets security fixes), although I couldn't find anything about how long it will be supported.
Background: There is an one year old upstream bug report: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034, which probably means, that this issue will never be fixed by adobe. So instead of letting people down by either having no working flash at all (if they don't have the necessary knowledge to fix this) or by being forced to use fishy workarounds (like old flash versions with known security issues), this would provide an easy to use and fairly secure fix for this problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to flashplugin-nonfree in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968759 Title: adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1freezes firefox display - crashes some webkit programs (depends on cpu) Status in “adobe-flashplugin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Confirmed Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Debian: Fix Released Status in Gentoo Linux: Unknown Bug description: Using Firefox 11.0 and the Adobe's Shockwave Flash 11.1.202.228 in youtube. Youtube and all flash sites shows a black box instead of the player. It works fine on Google Chrome. i'm reinstall this package and nothing happend. im using Ubuntu lucid 10.04.3 Adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.228-0lucid1 adobe-flash-properties-gtk works fine. This package is not stable. - This is apparently caused by the use of SSE2 instructions in new versions of adobe flash binaries, but only on older CPU's not implementing SSE2. There is an upstream bug reported for this: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3161034 Note that this code is binary only outside of Adobe. Where lernid, and apparently epiphany-browser use webkit they don't catch SIGILL. Both crash and close with the message "Illegal Instruction" sent to the console. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adobe-flashplugin/+bug/968759/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
