Bug 191152 - [hardy] not prompted to install flash plugin
Summary: [hardy] not prompted to install flash plugin
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2009-04-30 16:56 UTC by jonathan aquilina
Modified: 2021-04-20 13:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description jonathan aquilina 2009-04-30 16:56:52 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    I Don't Know

Binary package hint: kdebase

hardy heron - 8.04

konqueror version 3.5.9-0ubuntu1

After a fresh install of Kubuntu from the i386 DVD image from 20080318.1 I launched konqueror and went to www.youtube.com and www.ubuntuvideo.com. At neither web site was I prompted to install a flash plugin.

the bug can be found at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/+bug/203967
Comment 1 Zayed Al-Saidi 2009-04-30 17:42:41 UTC 
I think this is fixed in revision 959136 by Maks Orlovich
Comment 2 Jonathan Thomas 2009-05-07 21:06:55 UTC 
Unfortunately it does not seem to be fixed in trunk or KDE 4.2.3, where the fix was backported.

The problem here seems to be that youtube is doing its own checks for Flash, and won't embed the flash object unless Flash is found. The way flash detection currently works is that a "do you want to download flash" dialog is given if a page tries to embed flash when it is not installed.
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-06-21 01:48:20 UTC 
What should we do about this ? As Jonathan described this seems to be out of scope.
Thanks
Comment 4 Jonathan Thomas 2009-06-21 02:06:36 UTC 
Firefox manages to do it, so it's not exactly impossible. But I dunno how we'd go about detecting it better.
Comment 5 jonathan aquilina 2009-06-21 10:16:12 UTC 
Would it help having the flash package pulled as a dependency of firefox?
Comment 6 Jonathan Thomas 2009-06-21 13:39:55 UTC 
Distro Firefox packages don't do that either, since flash in nonfree software.
Comment 7 Justin Zobel 2021-03-21 00:25:20 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 10 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 8 Jonathan Marten 2021-04-20 13:47:46 UTC 
Flash and Netscape plugins are no longer supported.