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flashplugin-nonfree package

NPAPI Flash plugin freezes chrome, firefox

Bug #1203899 reported by Alexander A. J. Frankland
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

If i disable PPAPI Flash Plugin in chrome, then try to run a flash object (YouTube video, flash game, etc...) chrome will hang causing me to force restart. this seems to only happen with the NPAPI plugin (11.2 r202 of libflashplayer.so)

firefox SEEMS to start working AFTER I installed chrome, as it provided it's own version of flash. (PPAPI plugin) (I cannot create the firefox crashes after i installed chrome. maybe it delegates flash to other programs?)

OS:
Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)
Release: 13.10

FireFox: firefox 23.0~b4+buil amd64
Chrome: 28.0.1500.71 (Official Build 209842)

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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

Tentatively marking this under flashplugin.

affects: ubuntu → flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Mathew Hodson (mhodson) wrote :

The verification-needed tag is added by the SRU team when the upload is approved in the -proposed pocket.

tags: removed: verification-needed
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Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131) wrote :

1. Installing Chrome should have no effect on Firefox.
2. Chrome/chromium has dropped support for NPAPI plugins

If you can reproduce the crash with firefox, please try to get a stacktrace: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Crashes

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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