I'm using Chrome most of the time now since undertaking to rid myself of
Time-Warner's roadrunner. So far. no issues. FWIW. I dumped Firefox years
ago. When I first started using it, I thought it was genuinely wonderful. I
think I may still have been on Windows then. But after switching to Mac I
started running into issues with Firefox (not sure if they were Mac OS
related), but eventually I just dumped Firefox off my system and things
have been running smoothly since, using mostly Safari, and now Chrome
because I'm migrating all my mail to Gmail.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some more detail about recent Adobe Flash bug fixes (and defenses). This
> link explains generally what was done between Adobe and Google recently to
> fix as well as beef up Flash player self-defense. One thing that becomes
> apparent is that some of these defenses are based on 64-bit memory address
> manipulation to help hide where objects are located in Flash's memory
> heap. Chrome and Internet Explorer are 64-bit but Firefox is still
> 32-bit. It can use some but not all of the newly developed defenses.
> Mozilla released a 64-bit developer's edition of Firefox last March but
> there is no public release date yet. Part of the problem is that many
> Firefox plug-ins are still 32-bit.
>
> <
> http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/adobe-and-google-partner-to-bolster-flashs-defence-against-zero-day-attacks-717479
> >
>
> I can't evaluate the full significance of this but if you want the
> ultimate in Flash defenses against malware you should probably be running
> Chrome or maybe Internet Explorer. It's not clear to me whether Adobe has
> actually implemented the 64-bit tricks in the IE version of Flash. But it
> is clear that it has been done in the latest version of Chrome.
>
> If you're a programmer you might like to read the nitty-gritty detail from
> Adobe <
> http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.in/2015/07/significant-flash-exploit-mitigations_16.html
> >
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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