Why was Flash updated to 10.2? Is a downgrade possible?
Ubuntu follows a strict policy regarding upgrades. It doesn't put an upgrade from a major to a minor version within a (non-alpha) release: package foo-bar-baz_1.2.3 will get updated to 1.2.4, but not to 1.3.0. However, Adobe Flash plugin has been upgraded to 10.2 in _all_ Ubuntu releases.
Although this version is said to bring some performance enhancements, especially regarding video playback, I still feel way less CPU consuming (like 50% less) to open a FLV video than watch it from a browser. Flash 10.2 not only hides the video from /tmp, but also doesn't seem to bring any significant performance to video playback.
Is it possible to find an old version of Flash 10.1 (as a .deb package), install it and mark it to not upgrade? Or install an old version manually? (as an extra difficulty, I'm using 64b, so the Flash plugin is installed through nspluginwrapper)
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