![]() "And for the first time ever, Windows XP users (specifically, over 100 million Chrome users) have a sandboxed Flash-which is critical given the absence of OS support for security features like ASLR and integrity levels," it said.įlash Player has had a sandbox of its own. Windows Flash is now inside a sandbox that’s as strong as Chrome’s native sandbox, and dramatically more robust than anything else available," Google explained. "By porting Flash to PPAPI we’ve been able to achieve what was previously impossible with NPAPI for the 99.9% of Chrome users that rely on Flash. In fact, a PPAPI Flash version has been around for more than a year, in working form, but it wasn't stable enough for 300 million people to use. Google has been working with Adobe on a PPAPI Flash for ages. ![]() PPAPI is a modern plugin architecture, enabling sandboxing, GPU access, support for multi-process architectures and, very importantly, an OS-agnostic implementation. PPAPI is a replacement for the ancient NPAPI, the architecture used by browser plugins, such as Flash, Java, media players and so on and so forth, that's been around since the Netscape days. One very nice addition to Chrome 21, for Windows users, is the switch to the PPAPI plugin architecture for Flash. Google Chrome 21 landed in the stable channel last week, but, for some reason, Google made us wait until it revealed some of the most interesting things about it.
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