Well, I didn't push the update. I'm just a user. But if Ubuntu didn't push newer chromium releases to stable, there'd be a ton of security flaws by the time even the next STS Ubuntu release is published 6 months later.
And that would basically mean that any user who cares at least a little bit for the security of his operating system would be unlikely to use the Ubuntu chromium. I'd actually switch to Arch Linux completely in that case, since I don't want the Chrome compiled by Google and trying to find up to date PPAs or compiling myself appears to be more work than just fixing the occasional Arch breakage. The only sane thing any responsible distribution can do about chromium is to either NOT package it at all (this is what Fedora does), or ship the latest stable chromium at all times. If they just ship whatever was the latest chromium at the time of distro release, their users would be at risk and most users wouldn't even realize how dangerous it is to use the distro packaged browser. So yeah, this is a very difficult situation and I agree it's unfortunate that plugins have stopped working. However, this is not an "experiment", it's a required security update. Just shipping chrome 34 without the fixes would be irresponsible and unprofessional, it's almost like still using Windows XP today. If you really want 34 back, I'd recommend you to start backporting all the security fixes from 35, 36 and 37 to version 34. Maybe Ubuntu would be willing to ship your 34 + backported fixes. Better ask them first. If you can't do that, you could pay someone to do it, but that will be pretty expensive I guess seeing how there are ~50-100 issues in chromium 34 to be fixed. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1359615 Title: [precise] critical: flash stopped working after last update Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: New 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1359615/+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
