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Reconsider section about the Flash plug-in

Bug #1568984 reported by Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Gunnar Hjalmarsson

Bug Description

Since Adobe is no longer maintaining the Flash plug-in for Linux (other than security updates), we probably should reconsider this section in the docs. Not sure how.

http://www.howtogeek.com/193876/using-firefox-on-linux-your-flash-player-is-old-and-outdated/

See also bug #1563511 about Moonlight.

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Chris Perry (clissold345) wrote :

Hi Gunnar, the Adobe page (link below) says that (under Linux) Chromium and Chrome have the latest version of Flash (currently 22.0.0.209), so presumably that means that when a user installs Chromium or Chrome he/she immediately has the latest version of Flash. So that leaves potential problems with Firefox. Could we just say "If you're using Firefox and you're viewing a website that won't display correctly without the latest version of Flash, switch temporarily to Chromium"? Flash is being used less and less by websites so not having the latest version of Flash is becoming less and less of an inconvenience.

http://www.adobe.com/uk/software/flash/about/

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

There are some good news:

https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html#sthash.3gR3RhEv.CdUJSaUg.dpbs

Given that, I'm assuming that the adobe-flashplayer package will soon be updated with a recent version of the Firefox plugin, so I simply suggested that adobe-flashplayer is installed (and added a remark about HTML5).

Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-docs - 16.10.2

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ubuntu-docs (16.10.2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * tips-specialchars.page:
    - Reinsert the "Compose key" section (LP: #1596152).
  * net-install-moonlight.page:
    - Deleted; obsolete (LP: #1563511).
  * net-install-flash.page:
    - Open source section removed; obsolete (LP: #1615404).
    - Suggest adobe-flashplugin, mention HTML5 (LP: #1568984).
  * addremove-sources.page:
    - Item about signing key added (LP: #1612631).
    - Adobe Reader no longer in Canonical Partner (LP: #1613033).
  * power-hibernate.page:
    - Mention that presence of btrfs partitions may make hibernation
      fail (LP: #1619846).
  * net-firewall-on-off.page:
    - Replace the incorrect "block" option to the ufw command with
      "deny" (LP: #1622885).
  * net-wireless-troubleshooting-hardware-check.page: apt-get -> apt
  * ubuntu-mascot-creature.png: Official yakkety mascot.
  * Updated ubuntu-help.pot.

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:53:00 +0200

Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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