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Flash Sandboxing, Coming to a Chrome Near You

Posted on 15. Nov, 2010 by . 6 Comments

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Some of the code revisions at the Chromium site are pointing to the fact that Abode Flash is now going to be sandboxed. This will arrive in the Canary and Dev Channels soon.

When the integrated PDF reader was released for Chrome and was sandboxed, I was already under the impression that Flash was too. It appears that wasn’t the case until now.

Just as a quick review, sandboxing is a security method for running separate programs. It is a big part of Chrome and a feature that has been rolled out in other browsers since Google first introduced it.

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