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I installed an old version of flash player to keep using flash content until adobe releases a new version that works.
I did this manually since repository doesn't have older versions and I couldn't use Synaptic's force version option.

This is what I did (on Ubuntu Precise 32bit):

* I Downloaded archived package (Flash Player 11.1.102.63 (174 MB)) from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
* I then extracted release version of flash player for 32 bit linux archive and extracted libflashplayer.so from that (readme.txt has documentation for the packages)
* I have flashplayer-installer installed and that places the .so to /usr/lib/flashplayer-installer/ so I backed up that file and copied downloaded version in that folder:
 - cd /usr/lib/flashplayer-installer/
 - sudo mv libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so_backup
 - sudo cp ~/Downloads/libflashplayer.so .
* Then made sure that both libraries have the same permissions and that the owner is root (they were)
 - ls -la
* I had latest version installed elsewhere so flash wasn't working yet. I had to rename libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ so that firefox wasn't using that anymore.

* Flash was working and it reports the earlier version. Next I did a
sanity check and flash didn't work with the new library version but
works with the old one.

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Title:
  Flash plugin 11.2.202.228 breaks firefox and chromium in Precise and
  Oneiric

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