Comment 90 for bug 967091

Ok, just wondering if I understand this right (this is a real question not sarcasm): the Ubuntu people can't update Precise so that hardware acceleration for Flash is disabled out-of-the-box on the affected systems, at least for the moment? Because Adobe would have to allow it and currently they don't? Would they still have to allow it if the bug-fixing file was moved to another package on which the flashplugin packages could then depend?

Can we maybe help by bugging people at Adobe? Who would I need to contact?

Of course I know now that all I have to do is disable hardware acceleration. But I still think it would be great if other people (who might not know what do do about such a bug at all) didn't have to search high and low for an answer. So far Ubuntu has been "The Linux That Just Kinda Works" - would be great if that reputation could be kept. Even a message directing people to disable this hardware acceleration that appears at the first browser start, or when first playing a likely-to-be-affected video, would help.