** Description changed: + [Impact] + Since google no longer bundles its pepperflash plugin with chrome's debs (bug #1632870) the recommended way to get the plugin is by installing adobe-flashplugin from the partner repository. However, since it also includes the outdated NPAPI-plugin this will result in two flash-plugins being installed to Firefox' plugin directory, due to the fact that browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash and adobe-flashplugin doesn't use the same alternative link, which they should. In /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins there's currently two links: flash-mozilla.so -> /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so (installed by browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash) flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin (installed by adobe-flashplugin) browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash should use the same alternatives- link as the official package but with an higher priority, which would eliminate the compability issue. Also the recommend of pepperflashplugin-nonfree should be removed and solely recommend adobe-flashplugin instead. + + Proposed changes to achieve this are available in this PPA: + + https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/freshplayerplugin + + [Test Case] + + 1. Install adobe-flashplugin from Canonical Partner. + 2. Install the current version of + browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash. + 3. Restart Firefox and find that two version of "Shockwave Flash" are + shown under Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins. + 4. Install the proposed browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash. + 5. Restart Firefox and find only adobe-flashplugin's PPAPI plugin under + Plugins. + + [Regression Potential] + + Low. This proposal is a natural step for Ubuntu to deal with the + pepperflashplugin-nonfree breakage caused by Google. As an extra bonus, + since adobe-flashplugin actually installs the PPAPI plugin and not just + downloads it from an external source at install, users will have the + (almost) latest plugin version installed through the package updates.
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