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Adobe Releases Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox

Posted by Soulskill on from the finally-housebroken dept.

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."

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  1. How about they release a new 64bit version for Lin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about they release a new 64bit version for Linux? The colour in YT videos is totally messed up on my Ubuntu box

  2. Huh by masternerdguy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought adobe was abandoning flash.

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  3. Best sandbox ever ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've personally found the best way to sandbox Flash is to not install it.

    I honestly can't name a single site that I care about that uses it -- possibly because Flash makes me immediately not care about a web site. I know some people really like it, and it does things they really think is cool, but to me it's been something I've avoided for a long time now.

    But, who knows, maybe next week I'll discover something I can't live without that uses it.

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  4. Glad I don't work for Adobe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can only imagine how tough it would be to be a developer on the Flash team. Would you even want that on your resume? I'm not sure I would want to be associated with one of the most hated, least trusted applications out there. I'm guessing that when people find out you work on Flash, you would be constantly forced to defend Adobe and the Flash team or admit that you were part of a huge failure.

  5. Re:Flash vector animations and Flash games by Hatta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recommend their authors port their work to a non-proprietary format, or resign their proprietary crap to the dustbins of history where it belongs.

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