Comment 4 for bug 209634

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knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f) wrote :

Well, as expected libflashplugin.so does not contain debugging info so it is impossible to get a usable stack trace. I have posted this bug to Adobe's bug tracker but they seem to ignore bug reports judging from the reactions on their forum:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=184&threadid=1328059&enterthread=y
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=184&threadid=1292079&enterthread=y
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=184&threadid=1330175&enterthread=y

etcetera...

I also offered to help them fix the bug or at least find the cause but they have to make an unstripped version of libflashplugin.so available. As that might not fit with some corporate policy this might simply never happen. Adobe does offer a 'debugging version' of the plugin but this is meant for 'content debugging', not debugging of the plugin itself. These versions can be found here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

As the flash documentation license precludes the use of said documentation to create a free version we may be staring down a dead-end street.

Hey Adobe, are you reading along? Want your competition to beat you on the fastest growing platform on the 'net? Microsoft is helping out with porting Silverlight to Mono...