There is no way (or at least no way that does not involve forking
chromium and quite a lot of coding work) to get chromium to work with
Adobe Flash and have no security issues at the same time. Ubuntu decided
to prefer breaking flash over having precise users exposed to a growing
number of threats. This is simply because chromium no longer supports
NPAPI on Linux as you have mentioned, but old chromium versions are a
security hell.
You have four options:
1) Use e.g. firefox + NPAPI Adobe Flash for your flash viewing pleasure.
2) Install Google Chrome (instead of chromium) that comes with bundled
pepperflash.
3) Install pepperflash separatly (sudo apt-get install
pepperflashplugin-nonfree) and use it with chromium. Please note that
pepperflash DOES NOT AUTO UPDATE, even though it has critical security updates
regularly. Use "sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status" to see if there
is an update available, and "sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install"
to install the update.
4) Don't use flash. Obviously that's not always an option, but some sites like
youtube have HTML5 alternatives ready to be enabled.
This is not a bug, it's the intended deprecation of an old plugin API.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1359615
Title:
[precise] critical: flash stopped working after last update
Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Ubuntu released new version of chromium-browser
(36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.12.04.0~pkg897) for LTS 12.04 precise relase.
After updating chromium-browser from previous version
(34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu~1.12.04.0~pkg884) flash plugin stopped working.
Flash plugin is properly installed but it chromium does not see it and
show message that is not installed. Firefox has no problem and can
load flash object.
I suspect that this is because of dropping NPAPI support in chrome 36.
But ubuntu does not have pepper flash in repositories so it is not
possible to use flash on 12.04 anymore.
So this is critical problem because one month ago everything worked
fine and new *broken* version of chromium-browser is in precise-
security/universe archive. I suggest to revert chromium back to
*working* version or do something else -- because new *security*
update totally broke flash support on 12.04 LTS release.
Once again 12.04 is LTS release where is expected that updates marked
as security will *not* break existing application support -- this is
not *experimental* update.
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