[Bug 1633678] Re: Compability issue with adobe-flashplugin

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Thanks for those clarifications, Niklas. Just confirmed that it actually
uses adobe-flashplugin's PPAPI plugin, even if the Firefox GUI keeps
showing the fake one.

Then it's a trivial issue, which doesn't jeopardize security, and
nothing that needs to block the proposed fix.

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Title:
  Compability issue with adobe-flashplugin

Status in freshplayerplugin package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  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  since it also includes the outdated NPAPI-plugin this will result in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.

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