[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Bug fixed in all supported releases. Thanks Bhavani! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux To

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

This bug was fixed in the package pepperflashplugin-nonfree - 1.8.2+nmu1ubuntu1.1 --- pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.2+nmu1ubuntu1.1) yakkety-proposed; urgency=medium * Update to use adobe upstream rather than google (LP: #1632870) * Add alternate dependency on gnupg1 as gnupg is

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

This bug was fixed in the package pepperflashplugin-nonfree - 1.3ubuntu1.1 --- pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.3ubuntu1.1) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium * Update to use adobe upstream rather than google (LP: #1632870) -- Bhavani Shankar Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:18:13 +0530 -- You re

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

This bug was fixed in the package pepperflashplugin-nonfree - 1.8.2ubuntu1.1 --- pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.2ubuntu1.1) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium * Update to use adobe upstream rather than google (LP: #1632870). -- Bhavani Shankar Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:29:38 +0530 ** Ch

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Thanks Nathanael and Gunnar. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

I successfully installed pepperflashplugin-nonfree - version 1.8.2ubuntu1.1 from xenial-proposed - version 1.8.2+nmu1ubuntu1.1 from yakkety-proposed ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done-xenial verification-done-yakkety -- You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Verified for 1.3ubuntu1.1 on Trusty. The package installs successfully, downloads a .tar.gz PPAPI Flash Player Plugin archive from an Adobe URL, and installs the contained libpepflashplayer.so into /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/. ** Tags added: verification-done-trusty -- You received this

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected, Accepted pepperflashplugin-nonfree into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source /pepperflashplugin-nonfree/1.8.2+nmu1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. Please help u

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Setting bug priority as high due to package being unusable on stable versions ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfr

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Uploaded SRU to trusty-proposed. Waiting for approval. @ Nathanaël: The package should be in for Yakkety/Xenial/Trusty proposed repos once accepted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16328

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Ok.. Thanks! Assigning the trusty SRU to myself now. ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Trusty) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Bhavani: thanks a lot! If it's easily doable to SRU in Trusty, why not? That would unbreak the package for the rest of Trusty's life. But Trusty's version of the package is 1.3 vs. Xenial/Yakkety/Zesty's 1.8.x, so the difference in versions may make it more difficult to SRU in Trusty. In which cas

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Uploaded SRU to xenial-proposed. Waiting for approval. @ Nathanaël: Do you want me to upload the fix to trusty too, considering the comments above about adobe-flashplugin and pepperflashplugin-nonfree atleast until next cycle? (for rm request processing maybe?) -- You received this bug notificat

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Uploaded SRU to yakkety-proposed. Waiting for approval. @ ubuntu-sru team: Kindly request you to approve the same. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is b

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

I'll have a look and prepare an upload to Yakketty and Xenial soon (until someone beats me to it) ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bhavani Shanka

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Yakkety) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

On 2017-02-16 08:39, Amr Ibrahim wrote: > Just a hint to be in the picture, flashplugin-installer (from > multiverse) downloads and installs adobe-flashplugin (from Canonical > partner archive). I guess that means they are the same. It does, but they aren't the same. flashplugin-installer only k

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Just a hint to be in the picture, flashplugin-installer (from multiverse) downloads and installs adobe-flashplugin (from Canonical partner archive). I guess that means they are the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Nominated and approved (the latter via a workaround...) On 2017-02-14 21:40, Naël wrote: > @Gunnar: Yes, probably too late for Zesty. Besides, we should > probably leave the package in Zesty for now, if it is to be > backported to the previous releases via SRUs. We'll make the request > later. +1

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Gunnar: Yes, probably too late for Zesty. Besides, we should probably leave the package in Zesty for now, if it is to be backported to the previous releases via SRUs. We'll make the request later. I have updated the bug's description according to the guidelines in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableRe

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** Description changed: - pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debian package (.deb) from Google and extracts the Flash PPAPI plugin (libpepflashplayer.so) to make it available to other browsers system-wide. - pepperflashplugin-nonfree is broken since Google stopped shipping

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Nathanaël: No, I don't have access to remove any packages. A request will have to be filed. Possibly too late for zesty. Haven't talked with Chris yet. Just tried to ping him on IRC: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/02/14/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t12:06 Assuming that he doesn't have any other though

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Blaze: Assuming that you use Firefox, and with adobe-flashplugin installed, you can install the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash package to make Firefox actually use the PPAPI plugin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Viktor: Awesome! You may want to follow the following file in the future: https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin/blob/master/src/config_pepperflash.c The developer of this application (a PPAPI-to-NPAPI wrapper) does a good job of keeping up with the possible locations of the PPAPI Flash p

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Pepper Flash Player is maintained by Google. Adobe Flash plugin is provided by Adobe both the PPAPI and NPAPI versions. Don't you see the difference? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16328

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Hello Blaze, What do you mean with "hardware acceleration works better with Pepper plugin"? adobe-flashplugin does install the Pepper Flash plugin alongside the NPAPI plugin. Did you check that your browser / application uses the correct version of the Flash plugin (Pepper and not NPAPI)? -- Y

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Experience with the Adobe flashplugin is somewhat worse than with the native Google solution. For example it's not possible to make a flash video go fullscreen, at least in QtWebengine. Also hardware acceleration works better with Pepper plugin. Therefore it's not a complete replacement. -- You r

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

In Qt WebEngine, we have added "/usr/lib/adobe- flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so" to the locations where it looks for the plugin, so it is now also found when one installs the package "adobe-flashplugin". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

This bug has been fixed in pepperflashplugin-nonfree 1.8.3+nmu1 in Debian on 2017-01-14, and the fix landed in 1.8.3+nmu1ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Zesty (the current development release) on 2017-01-22. The PPAPI Flash plugin is now downloaded from Adobe rather than Google. One still has to run the provided

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Debian) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flas

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

On 2016-12-06 03:37, Nathanaël Naeri wrote: > Regarding the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in the Ubuntu > archive, I am in favor of proposing to drop it from the archive in > zesty (I believe you mean zesty). Yes. Thanks for pointing it out. > BTW, was there ever a consensus in favor or again

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Yes, I contacted Daniel a few weeks ago to let him know about the Chrome/Flash unbundling and suggest he downloads from Adobe or retires his PPA. Since there is now a variety of ways to get the NPAPI/PPAPI Flash plugin, he decided to retire his PPA, and I updated my Flash memo to stop mentioning it

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

I just noticed what Daniel did with the pepperflash PPA he provided previously. https://launchpad.net/~skunk/+archive/ubuntu/pepper-flash As regards the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in the Ubuntu archive, is it time to propose that it's dropped from the archive in yakkety? -- You received

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Thanks for sharing that memo, Nathanaël. Indeed a useful road map to get a grasp of the current confusing state of Flash related packages. Hopefully we will succeed in simplifying it a bit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubunt

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

I read the ubuntu-devel thread and agree with everything you said. Thanks for trying to solve that issue at installation level. As a side note about that thread: AFAIK, flashplugin-installer (NPAPI 11.2, src:flashplugin-nonfree) comes from Debian too, just like pepperflashplugin-nonfree (PPAPI, sr

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

On 2016-10-28 23:01, Nathanaël Naeri wrote: > Gunnar: >> As regards dependencies in Ubuntu, I don't think it's possible to >> let a package in universe/multiverse recommend or depend on a >> package in Canonical Partner, since the latter is not enabled by >> default. > > I thought so too, but now

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Gunnar: > > As regards dependencies in Ubuntu, I don't think it's > possible to let a package in universe/multiverse > recommend or depend on a package in Canonical Partner, > since the latter is not enabled by default. I thought so too, but now I'm not sure it's that much of a problem, as long as

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Debian) Status: Unknown => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash wit

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** No longer affects: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Also affects: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841373 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown --

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

I'm working with bug #1633678, and have uploaded some changes to a PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/freshplayerplugin I have some doubts described in comment #3 of bug #1633678. Would appreciate if some people could test and give feedback before I ask for sponsorship. -- Yo

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

CLARIFICATION: Adobe's unreleased, new NPAPI Linux plugin will be crippled compared to the PPAPI plugin: "Because this change is primarily a security initiative, some features (like GPU 3D acceleration and premium video DRM) will not be fully implemented." Emphasis mine: "If you require t

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

On 2016-10-25 20:59, Stéphane wrote: > @Gunnar: > The PPAPI plugin has some extra features the NPAPI will not get > according to Adobe: > "Because this change is primarily a security initiative, some > features (like GPU 3D acceleration and premium video DRM) will not be > fully implemented. If you

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

First thanks for the (long and) exhaustive comments! @Nathanaël: My main concern with pepperflashplugin-nonfree was that I was stuck with an impossible to update, outdated Flash plugin. In the past I had a cron job reinstalling the package everyday to make sure that a secure version of Flash plugi

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Currently, i.e. as long as version 23+ of the NPAPI plugin is only beta and not officially released by Adobe, we are in limbo. However, Adobe can be expected to release the updated NPAPI soon, and when that happens, all this ought to be significantly easier to deal with. Hence I don't think it's wo

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Last remarks about the wrapper: Stéphane: > in Firefox when I use browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash > with adobe-flashplugin I see two different versions of the > Flash plugin and I am not able to force the use of the PPAPI > version > > OK after some more trying it appears that Firefox cann

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Moving on to the browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash issues mentioned in this thread: just like pepperflashplugin-nonfree (the PPAPI plugin), browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (the NPAPI/PPAPI wrapper) comes from Debian and has no Ubuntu maintainer, only the MOTU guys who are overworked alr

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Stéphane: > Adobe only distributes the NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux > on https://get.adobe.com/fr/flashplayer/; AFAIK the PPAPI > plugin is only distributed via the Canonical partner repository This used to be the case, but no longer: Adobe now finally distributes the PPAPI Flash plugin for Linux

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

First of all: pepperflashplugin-nonfree comes from Debian, as opposed to adobe-flashplugin which is Ubuntu-specific, and the fact that it is broken now that Google stops shipping the PPAPI Flash plugin with Chrome, starting with v54 released a few days ago, has been reported to the Debian maintaine

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Viktor: your issue with QtWebEngine not finding the PPAPI Flash plugin is that it looks for it in the following three locations, if I understand correctly from http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine- features.html#pepper-flash-player-plugin-support: /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** Description changed: pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debian package (.deb) from Google and extracts the Flash PPAPI plugin (libpepflashplayer.so) to make it available to other browsers system-wide. pepperflashplugin-nonfree is broken since Google stopped shipping

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

ah, I didn't know that libpepflashplayer.so is included in adobe- flashplugin. symlinking it works indeed - even in WebEngine programs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: P

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Basically you need to execute sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so /usr/lib /pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so to get everything working with QtWebEngine etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

On 2016-10-19 10:49, Viktor Engelmann wrote: > You might be fine with using adobe flash, but the users of ANY Qt > WebEngine based program are not. I think there is some kind of misconception here. The adobe-flashplugin package installs both NPAPI and PPAPI plugins. $ dpkg -L adobe-flashplugin |

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Viktor: Thanks for sharing your script. You must be aware that the link I provided and that you are using points to a specific version of the PPAPI Flash plugin (23.0.0.185). Flash plugins are very short lived; new critical vulnerabilities will be discovered and the version 23.0.0.185 you use in

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Using Stéphanes analysis, I wrote this little script to install pepper flash manually: #!/bin/bash TARGET=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so wget http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/release2/rpofl8ynzf9r05ca7iim67wdwf3t0zpuehwy3aswydc9g91q5c4iydolh9lt5toluyuq2phjg168mcvxxhntm3

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

How can the priority still be "undecided" after a week, when the package is 100% dysfunctional? You might be fine with using adobe flash, but the users of ANY Qt WebEngine based program are not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 T

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** Also affects: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632870 Title: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping F

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Stéphane: You can block the plugin adobe-flashplugin installs to Firefox by manually redirecting it to /dev/null sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin- alternative.so mozilla-flashplugin /dev/null 100 that way browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash can do its th

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

@Stéphane: Yeah, my suggestion to "drop it somehow" implies that there is a need for some considerations; for instance there is bug #1544409. Ideally you would make pepperflashplugin-nonfree a dummy transitional package which depends on adobe-flashplugin, but since the latter resides in Canonical P

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

By the way Adobe is working on the NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux again: https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html This means Firefox users would be able to use again an up-to-date version of Flash without workarounds. -- You received this bug notifica

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

OK after some more trying it appears that Firefox cannot tell the NPAPI and PPAPI plugins apart when both are installed, some websites will start the NPAPI plugin and some other will run the PPAPI plugin. Disabling one of the plugins does not work either because the setting is applied to both plugi

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

Thanks for the hint. In my case two issues remain: - browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash recommends on pepperflashplugin-nonfree http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash, this should be removed - in Firefox when I use browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash with

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

It shouldn't be too difficult to get it directly from Adobe nowadays: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ But why bother? According to the pepperflashplugin-nonfree package has been deprecated for more than a year. Isn't this a suitable time to dro

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

With Wireshark I found that Google Chrome 54 gets downloads Flash 23.0.0.185 PPAPI for Linux from: http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/release2/rpofl8ynzf9r05ca7iim67wdwf3t0zpuehwy3aswydc9g91q5c4iydolh9lt5toluyuq2phjg168mcvxxhntm3n79e4nw3mrx1j/23.0.0.185_linux_PepperFlashPlayer.crx CRX files are ZI

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

I installed Google Chrome 54 on Kubuntu 16.04. Chrome downloaded libpepflashplayer.so to: /home/kubuntu/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/23.0.0.185/libpepflashplayer.so It looks like Google Chrome downloads the Flash plugin at runtime. -- You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 1632870] Re: Package is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux

** Description changed: - pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debian package (.deb) from the Google and extracts the Flash PPAPI plugin (libpepflashplayer.so) to make it available to other browsers system-wide. + pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debia