Google starts rolling out Adobe Flash Player sandboxing in Chrome

“Since this past March, we’ve been working closely with Adobe to allow Flash Player to take advantage of new sandboxing technology in Chrome, extending the work we’ve already done with sandboxing for HTML rendering and JavaScript execution,” Justin Schuh and Carlos Pizano report via the Chromium Blog.

“This week, we’re excited to roll out the initial Flash Player sandbox for our dev channel users on Windows XP, Vista and 7,” Schuh and Pizano report. “This initial Flash Player sandbox is an important milestone in making Chrome even safer. In particular, users of Windows XP will see a major security benefit, as Chrome is currently the only browser on the XP platform that runs Flash Player in a sandbox.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Hey, that’s not true: Apple’s Mobile Safari was the first to sandbox Adobe Flash – straight to B.F. Egypt where it belongs.