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		alexknight on Feb 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flash Player sandboxing is coming to Firefox Mostly true, with the exception of Safari on OS X. If you have Flash installed on a Mac, Safari runs it as an isolated separate 64-bit process. This was not built by Adobe though, it was built by Apple.

justinschuh on Feb 7, 2012 [–]

Plugins on Safari are in a separate process, but they are not sandboxed. Perhaps you'd confused plugins and extensions?

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