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Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu x64, Flash v10.0.32.18ubuntu1, seems to survive. Chrome survives too, unsurprisingly. Come to think of it, doesn't Firefox have plugin crash safety in place now?

Midori does insta-crash though.

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ff 3.5 on a similar setup crashes. 3.6 was when ff made itself less vulnerable to this sort of thing, following webkit's and chrome's ideas on isolating plugins.

Are you sure that's in 3.6? My 3.6 build doesn't have the "dom.ipc.plugins.enabled" key in about:config.

I'm pretty sure it'll be landing in 3.7. Here's the tracking bug that shows what's left to fix on it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539055

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