[Bug 1778041] [NEW] browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash broken

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj):

[Impact]

browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash prevents sites which require
Flash from working with the latest versions of Firefox. If you select
"Ask to Activate" in FF, the contents requiring Flash is not shown. If
you select "Always Activate", the tab with the page requiring Flash
simply crashes.

Issue identified via <https://askubuntu.com/q/1048357>. A "no change
rebuild" does not help.

The proposed version in the PPA fixes the issue, so the wrapper works as
intended also with the latest FF version.

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/freshplayerplugin

This suggests an upgrade to a newer upstream version. This is the
upstream changelog:

2017-12-23  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

	* release v0.3.9
	* network: stop using files with NPN_PostURL

2017-12-09  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

	* release: v0.3.8
	* misc: add NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall emulation for Firefox 58

2017-05-31  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

	* release: v0.3.7
	* graphics: add more fullscreen _NET_WM controls
	* misc: drop libpdf wrapper
	* misc: drop NaCl wrapper
	* misc: search for PepperFlash in Chrome component update
	directories

2016-10-05  Rinat Ibragimov  <ibragimovrinat at mail.ru>

	* release: v0.3.6
	* graphics: fix off-by-one pixel issue in fullscreen scaling
	mode
	* graphics: try to flicker less
	* misc: use ICU for character set conversion, use WhatWG
	canonical encoding name conversion
	* misc: guess default character encoding from locale name
	* misc: guess GTK+ major version at run time

Admittedly it includes a few minor improvements, but hopefully this can
still pass as an SRUable microrelease (or something...).

[Test Case]

1. Install adobe-flashplugin and the bionic-release version of
   browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash.

2. (Re)start Firefox and visit
   <https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html>.

=> Find that it doesn't confirm that Flash is installed.

3. Install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash from bionic-proposed.

4. Repeat 2.

=> Confirmation that the latest Flash version is installed.

[Regression Potential]

Considering that the bionic-release version of browser-plugin-
freshplayer-pepperflash breaks Flash completely on Firefox, the risk
that this upload makes the situation worse is non-existent.

** Affects: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: bionic
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browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1778041
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