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		icebraining on Nov 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experie... Flash already runs in a different process, even without e10s enabled. Dunno why your Firefox is crashing every time it encounters Flash or similar media, but I can assure you that's not a common experience. Maybe try enabling click-to-play?

kuschku on Nov 7, 2015 [–]

I filed a bug report for that, too, and it discovered multiple gaping holes in the sandbox, which, luckily, only allowed null pointer dereferencing (so no RCE problems, but still DoS)

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