Mozilla adds NPAPI plug-in sandbox to Firefox

JMH · Jan 25, 2015

Sandboxing finally comes to the Firefox web browser. After enabling a (currently) non-restrictive content sandbox in Firefox Nightly last month, the organization enabled the upcoming NPAPI plug-in sandbox in Aurora and Nightly versions of the browser as well.
These sandboxes are designed to limit the rights of tabs and plug-ins in the browser to harden and stabilize it.

The plug-in sandbox is deactivated by default and needs to be enabled by the user before it becomes available.
It is sandboxing all browser plug-ins by default when enabled but there is also an option to enable it only for select plug-ins.

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Mozilla adds NPAPI plug-in sandbox to Firefox

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