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Adobe debuts sandboxed version of Flash Player for Firefox

Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 10:14 PM EST
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Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture.

"The design of this sandbox is similar to what Adobe delivered with Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and follows the same Practical Windows Sandboxing approach," said Peleus Uhley, platform security strategist at Adobe, in a blog post on Monday. "Like the Adobe Reader X sandbox, Flash Player will establish a low integrity, highly restricted process that must communicate through a broker to limit its privileged activities."

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Considering Adobe Flash is the leading entry for Malware this looks like a good step but the timing is years late with the increased adoption of HTML5 video.

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Reply#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 10:49 PM EST
Jay Butler

You are absolutely right. That horse left the barn long ago.

Adobe should have been pushing ahead with Flash security and stability years ago. Now, that they are killing Flash on mobile, the desktop cannot be far behind. Web developers are going to use a common platform like HTML5 to deliver as much rich content as they can before relying on a tool like Flash again.

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#1.1 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:09 PM EST
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