Adobe Bringing Flash Sandboxing to Firefox
Written by Alan Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:27
Flash from Adobe has become a liability for all computer users with their laundry list of security flaws, but they are working to fix these problems (as they always are). A while back Adobe announced the sandboxing of Flash with Google Chrome, but now they are finally bringing this technology to Firefox, the popular web browser from Mozilla. Sandboxing allows an app to work alone without interacting with anything on the PC.
In a blog post yesterday, Adobe representative Peleus Uhley announced the new Firefox app for Flash. “Today, Adobe has launched a public beta of our new Flash Player sandbox (aka “Protected Mode”) for the Firefox browser.” The app is available for immediate download from Adobe Labs. In addition, Uhley will be speaking about this at the upcoming CanSecWest security conference.
“Sandboxing technology has proven very effective in protecting users by increasing the cost and complexity of authoring effective exploits. For example, since its launch in November 2010, we have not seen a single successful exploit in the wild against Adobe Reader X. We hope to see similar results with the Flash Player sandbox for Firefox once the final version is released later this year.”
This is all very good news for Firefox users. While the Flash Sandbox is currently in Beta, it is stable enough to use now, and a final version will be coming later this year. Adobe also plans to bring this technology to other web browsers in the future.
Source: Adobe Blog
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