Comment 126 for bug 173890

This is not simple. Flash is working for all people who currently use konqueror so lets think at the consequences of each choices :

1. Updating flashplugin-nonfree to 9.0.115.0 : The majority of all konqueror users are still able to use flash because it has been installed in 9.0.48 version. Once the update is added in ubuntu repositories, ALL konqueror users won't be able to use flashplugin anymore, and there will be no workaround to fix this problem. Actual Firefox users won't see any difference and new ubuntu firefox users will be able to install flashplugin-nonfree again.

2. Don't update flashplugin-nonfree : All Firefox/konqueror users are still able to use flash, new Firefox users need support in order to install flash, but it's still possible, and new konqueror users can't install flash player.

I don't know about your opinion, but I think that option 1 is worst than 2. If konqueror doesn't comply with Xembed ( that is used by latest flash plugin ), it won't be possible to install flash for konqueror. There has been some serious work on this in the last weeks and ubuntu people are not sleeping.. Patches for konqueror AND latest flashplugin-nonfree are both availaible for Hardy. Because it's relatively new, these patches needs testing before they are updated as updates for all stable ubuntu releases. I tested latest konqueror in Hardy and didn't get expected result yet.

I opened bug #184149 for the konqueror issue. Once it will get fixed, I believe that it will be possible for ubuntu developers to think about patching konqueror and updating flash on all stable ubuntu release.

Unfortunately, it's not possible to change the download link in the 9.0.48.0 package to download the 9.0.48.0 version of flash because this flash version is now in a huge archive of 61 Mb which contains all 9 version of flash for Linux. Also this is not a viable solution since 9.0.48.0 version has serious security bugs which needs to be fixed by updating to 8.0.115.0