[Bug 1778041] Re: browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash broken

Gunnar Hjalmarsson 1778041 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Jun 22 23:11:09 UTC 2018


** Changed in: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: freshplayerplugin (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash broken

Status in freshplayerplugin package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in freshplayerplugin source package in Bionic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [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.

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