Comment 237 for bug 173890

Jan Claeys & Oliver Gerlich : I totally agree about your opinion concerning the security, however, like Oliver Gerlich said in this case, we had problems since the new flash version could not be installed due to problems with konqueror so the security updates took multiples weeks before being applied. Asking for Adobe for a better release cycle is a great idea to fix the security problem and I also suggest to do so, but I also still suggest what I suggested earlier, that's two different and important requests.

My request is about fixing permanently problems when installing flash (because we have no control over the updates from Adobe), and unlike other apps like Firefox, we don't update the plugins by ourself and when it get updated, all people get installation problems. This request has great chances to be accepted, it will have no positive/negative impact on the security, it will have greatly positive impact on the installation of flash.

Your request is about asking Adobe to have a more coherent release cycle concerning security and enhancement updates to avoid people using dangerous products. This problems has less chances to be accepted by Adobe, but it's really important to ask them in order to have a good security, it will have a good impact on security and have a positive impact on the delay before which we can update with the security update.

So even if I invite people to ask Adobe for the permanent links, other request like your one might be very important as well since they target other important direct aspects of the bug and I don't want to argue more about this, my opinion is not the only one. Since Adobe gave to us an invitation about my idea, why don't you suggest also your own ideas as well? Thanks and sorry for the noise.