16.11.2012 02:36 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Flash finally sandboxed in Google Chrome for OS X

The fastest web browser on the Mac just got a little safer. With Chrome 23, Google has introduced a "sandboxed" version of the Adobe Flash plug-in, which helps prevent its use in exploits that could allow harmful code to be run without the user's knowledge. Computerworld reports that Google engineers rewrote the Flash plug-in to comply with its own PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard. It had previously used the older NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard. The OS X

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