More reliable Flash Player combo

Hey everybody,

I am looking for information on the reliability of Flash Player. I know from experience, it sometimes freezes on the operating system Windows using Mozilla Firefox (at least in my case, do not know why). I can't do more for various reasons.

My question is: is there any OS Flash Player + composition of browser, which can make sure that it will not crash? Or is there a composition that can minimize this risk to almost 0%?

Thanks in advance.

BR,

Galinaf

Each version of Flash Player includes important security updates.  You always want to use the latest version of Flash Player.

The Safe_mode for Firefox is a significant mitigation of security designed to provide defense in depth protections against modern malware targeting Flash Player.  In front of the growing number of attacks against Firefox, modernize us an approach to sandboxing to Firefox NPAPI plugin architecture, which originated in the early 1990s.

There is a good explanation of what it looks like here:

l http://blogs.adobe.com/Security/2012/06/Inside-Flash-Player-protected-mode-for-Firefox.htm

Flash and Firefox use a communication channel provided by the operating system called IPC (Inter Process Communication) to transmit messages. In addition to the multiple layers of abstraction introduced by Protected Mode, there are two additional layers between Firefox and our broker.  This means that each message between Flash and Firefox went through four different processes and there are four times as many messages.

What we see when we look into the shot of typical generic Firefox and Flash, is that a message is deleted or rendered unserviceable, and one of the parties just sits there to wait for a response that never comes.  Possibly 30 Firefox hang second detection intervenes, and kills it safely the Flash Player process, which triggers the plugin screen then crashed.

We have spent a lot of time playing with it, and what we find generally is that disabling one of the layers of this stack, Container PlugIn, Protected Mode, etc, leads to an improvement in stability.  The theory of our work is that by reducing the number of messages that are passed, we do not see problems with messages getting dropped.  We are not maxing out the ability of transmitting messages, and things work as expected.

Competing browsers such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer have invested heavily in the creation of modern architectures of plug-ins that offer safety and efficiency benefits.  Unfortunately, Mozilla is considering a future without plugins and upgrade the plugin API to provide both security and effectively isn't a priority for Firefox.

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