> I am curious about the Konqueror bug.

There are two bugs, the other one is that it's about screen links to
nonfree plugins that it supports.  The one you describe technically
isn't a Konqueror bug, it's in KHTML in kdelibs (I don't know if this
message occurs in other programs using KHTML).

> The problem is Konqueror
> suggests non-free software, by recommending Adobe Flash on certain
> websites.

It recommends the plugin recommended by the site, using the embed tag.

> My question is, what methods are necessary to fix this bug?
> Could it only be fixed by a programmer or could it be fixed by
> searching and replacing text in source files?

It's nearly the same, it might need some understanding of what the code
does.  If I have fixed them in Parabola (I don't remember who did it), I
had no previous experience with KDE code (and I don't know C++ nor Qt
well).

> What might be the
> correct suggestion for Konqueror to make instead of suggesting Flash?
> Should it suggest Gnash or Lightspark? (My money is on Gnash, but only
> because I love it.)

It suggest the plugin suggested by the site (maybe some suggest free
plugins), I don't consider it a useful feature, so in Parabola it
doesn't suggest any plugin.  (On many sites this isn't used, JavaScript
or the object tag handles it.)

The patches in Parabola:

https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/kdelibs-libre/khtml-fsdg.diff
https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/abslibre.git/tree/libre/kdebase-konqueror-libre/konq-about-fsdg.diff

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