#Flash player plugin for firefox 50.1 update#
#Flash player plugin for firefox 50.1 Offline#

It's pretty close to the same thing that we did, but because it's a native sandbox implementation, it requires about half the amount of IPC traffic (which reduces CPU overhead), and it effectively solved the long-standing problem with Flash hanging randomly. When Mozilla prioritized the 64-bit version of Firefox and wanted to start shipping it as an official release, they decided to implement a native 64-bit NPAPI sandbox. It's enough that the operating system is not always able to deliver them reliably and in order, which is at the heart of the stability issues with Flash on Firefox. Because we effectively bolted it on to the wrong side of the plug-in interface, it's architecturally inefficient and generates a multiple of the number of IPC messages that would otherwise be required.

Yeah, back around 2009, Mozilla declined to implement a security sandbox for plug-ins, so we implemented one ourselves for Flash.

#Flash player plugin for firefox 50.1 update#

Flash Player for Firefox is distinct, and updated through our update mechanism or via manual installation.ДЇirst things though, if you haven't rebooted since you started experiencing the symptoms, that's probably a great place to start. The Windows update you're referring to is just the standard monthly update (we're continuously and proactively hardening Flash Player, so they're all technically security updates), and only applied to IE and Edge. A set of generalized symptoms is going to be much harder to do anything about. If you have a consistently reproducible one with a discrete set of reproduction steps, that would be very helpful. I'm not aware of any widespread performance regressions. It's a huge improvement in general though, and I'd recommend the switch.

The 64-bit version of Firefox will generally perform better, although there are a couple bugs with the native Firefox sandbox that are still being worked out. It's just the installation technology that varies.ДЄre you using 32 or 64-bit Firefox? (Task manager will show Firefox (32-bit) if you have the 32-bit variant).

#Flash player plugin for firefox 50.1 Offline#

There's no difference in the binary deployed from our online or offline installers.