On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Haik Aftandilian <haftandil...@mozilla.com > wrote:
> We intend to ship a process-level sandbox for the NPAPI Flash plugin on > macOS in 61. This will provide a degree of process isolation at the expense > of some lesser-used Flash functionality[1]. You can enable the sandbox now > on Nightly, globally for all sites, by setting > dom.ipc.plugins.sandbox-level.flash=1 and restarting the browser[2]. > Before this rides the trains, we intend to offer a per-site opt-out UI. But > we will enable this on Nightly by default earlier to get early feedback. > The Mac Flash sandbox is now enabled by default on Nightly. Thanks, Haik > > If you run Firefox on Mac and depend on any Flash sites, please give the > site a try with the sandbox enabled. And if you encounter any issues, > please file bugs blocking bug 1433577[3]. > > Thanks, > Haik > > 1. Flash applets that attempt to write to the filesystem will be impacted > because the plugin process has limited write access. Adobe Air installs > triggered by Flash applets will no longer work. Printing to PDF or > postscript, and Open in Preview from the print dialog does not work. No > issues have been found with any Flash games. > > 2. The same pref is used on Windows, but the numerical levels are not > comparable or related in any way to the Mac version. > > 3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433577 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
