Chromium is not in main, i.e. it's officially unsupported by
Canonical. Formally, only approved Ubuntu community members (MOTUs)
support chromium in Ubuntu, while Canonical does not guarantee any
support at all.
That's the formal aspect at least. In practice, it seems like a
Canonical employee,
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
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
Well, I didn't push the update. I'm just a user...
Then some ubuntu representative person *should* comment this bug.
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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
I'm sorry, you don't have option 3). Only after upgrading to Trusty.
Pepperflash is not available in Precise.
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Title:
Not only Flash, but also Java stopped working...
And it *is* a bug. It worked without problem before releasing that
security update... Why on the earth you push update to stable LTS relase
where is expected that everything will work after update which break
more Flash and Java applications? For
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a regular (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege
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Title:
[precise] critical: flash stopped working
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