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Adobe Releases Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox
Trailrunner7 writes "Adobe has released a new version of their Flash player that now gives Firefox users the additional security of a sandbox and also includes a background update mechanism for Mac users. Flash has run in a sandbox on Google Chrome and Internet Explorer for some time already. The big security news in Flash player 11.3 is the addition of the protected mode sandbox for Firefox on Windows. That's a major change for Adobe, which has been adding sandbox to its main product lines for a couple of years now. Adobe Reader X has run in protected mode — which is what Adobe calls its sandbox — since its release, and the company also added a sandbox to Flash on Google Chrome. The sandbox is designed to prevent attackers from using vulnerabilities in Flash to break out of the application and move to other apps or the OS itself."
The captain never leaves a sinking ship!
Unless he's Italian.
This really solidifies Flash as the web container of choice and knocks HTML 5 for six!
Gotta be a sad day if you're an IOS user.
My phone has more RAM than that.
I suggest you spend $10 and buy more RAM.
Heck I might even mail you some if you ask nicely.
Vada A Bordo, Cazzo!
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Dear Adobe,
I really hope you do not give up on Flash. I want Flash to live and I want it to be used everywhere. I love it, I love the idea of it, I love everything about it. I want as little web content to be written in html5 as possible.
I dread the day when I start my web browser and all that colourful flashing cpu hogging vomit that I avoid by NOT having installed flashplugin will have been converted to html5. It'll be like going back to 1996 when web was full of GIFs. Please do NOT do this to me; do not abandon Flash.
Sincerely yours, world's biggest Flash fan
And if YouTube keeps showing you "Cannot display video", change your user agent string for the iPad one.
At which point you get "This video cannot be displayed on mobile devices."