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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[precise] critical: flash stopped working after last update
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