Here's the official Ubuntu position: The Netscape Plugin API feature
can not be supported securely, so it has to go. Preventing attacks wins
over features. Upstream explicitly and intentionally has removed NPAPI
because it is insecure by design. Additionally, many remote-execution
security vulnerabilities are since fixed in code that has dropped NPAPI,
and those can not be ignored or backported forever.
The correct fix is to update plugins so they support the new, secure
API, PPAPI.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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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:
Won't Fix
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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