More Security for Flash in Chrome on Windows

               What Google's developers have already built in version 20 of its Chrome browser for Linux, comes in the recent Chrome 21 and Windows users to Good: A better shielding of the Flash plug-in designed to reduce the crashes by 20 percent. At the same time making the graphics processing technology for playing Flash animations accessible.


               As a contribution in the Chromium blog explains, Chrome 21 also replaces the previous Windows for NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) by Pepper Plug-in API (PPAPI). This would give all first time users of Windows XP has a Flash player that runs in a sandbox. This is particularly important because on this operating system security features such as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) were missing.

               Coming soon to get the Mac version of Chrome Flash Player in a PPAPI version. To ensure that all supported platforms were converted to the new technology.

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