This is not simple. Flash is working for all people who currently use
konqueror so lets think at the consequences of each choices :

1. Updating flashplugin-nonfree to 9.0.115.0 : The majority of all
konqueror users are still able to use flash because it has been
installed in 9.0.48 version. Once the update is added in ubuntu
repositories, ALL konqueror users won't be able to use flashplugin
anymore, and there will be no workaround to fix this problem. Actual
Firefox users won't see any difference and new ubuntu firefox users will
be able to install flashplugin-nonfree again.

2.  Don't update flashplugin-nonfree : All Firefox/konqueror users are
still able to use flash, new Firefox users need support in order to
install flash, but it's still possible, and new konqueror users can't
install flash player.

I don't know about your opinion, but I think that option 1 is worst than
2. If konqueror doesn't comply with Xembed ( that is used by latest
flash plugin ), it won't be possible to install flash for konqueror.
There has been some serious work on this in the last weeks and ubuntu
people are not sleeping.. Patches for konqueror AND latest flashplugin-
nonfree are both availaible for Hardy. Because it's relatively new,
these patches needs testing before they are updated as updates for all
stable ubuntu releases. I tested latest konqueror in Hardy and didn't
get expected result yet.

I opened bug #184149 for the konqueror issue. Once it will get fixed, I
believe that it will be possible for ubuntu developers to think about
patching konqueror and updating flash on all stable ubuntu release.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the download link in the
9.0.48.0 package to download the 9.0.48.0 version of flash because this
flash version is now in a huge archive of 61 Mb which contains all 9
version of flash for Linux. Also this is not a viable solution since
9.0.48.0 version has serious security bugs which needs to be fixed by
updating to 8.0.115.0

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