heads up: Adobe now has full 64-bit Flash support

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 12:34:50 UTC 2011


Hi Marko,

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 October 2011 12:30:42 suvayu ali wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The security geeks will tell you it is needed to isolate
>> > the plugin into a separate executable,
>>
>> As far as I know, the latest Firefox and Google Chrome versions
>> already sandbox plugins. Gone are the days when a crashed plugin meant
>> a crashed browser. :)
>
> Can you define "latest"? On my up-to-date F14, the "latest" Firefox is version
> 3.6.23. Does this version do that sandboxing of plugins?
>

I believe FF 4 introduced this feature and Chrome had this built in
from the very start. You can get packaged FF 7.0.1 from remi's repo. I
have been using them for a year, IMO his packages are very reliable.

> Best, :-)
> Marko
>

GL

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Suvayu

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