That's perfect, and attempting to go back to a page that loads Acrobat's PDF
plugin fails - which is what I expect now.
Thanks!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28, Nicolas Sylvain <[email protected]>wrote:

> You can use the command line --safe-plugins . It will put all the plugins
> in the sandbox. Some of them will break.
> You can also add some exceptions for the plugins you want to run outside
> the sandbox (because they don't work in the sandbox and you "trust" them).
>
> For example, my command line looks like :
>
> --safe-plugins
> --trusted-plugins=nppdf32.dll,npdsplay.dll,activex-shim,gears.dll
>
> If you find bugs with plugins, feel free to file bugs (and cc me if you
> can), but since this is not supported yet, we might not get to them really
> fast.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Cameron King <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So does anyone know of a way to disable plugins that aren't completely
>> safe?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 18:46, Cameron King <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> This past week, a co-worker and I both got bitten by a PDF that loaded
>>> in the browser using Adobe's plugin and carried a payload of two
>>> executables files.  Both Firefox and Chrome (with the help of Adobe's
>>> plugin) let the malicious files execute.  (It's a blood-chilling,
>>> power-strip-kicking sort of feeling to see two malicious exe's running
>>> as children under your browser in Task Manager...)
>>>
>>> In the past, I've always used Firefox+NoScript (among other plugins)
>>> as a first line of defense against this sort of thing, but I switched
>>> to Chrome when it first came out.  Really, if I wanted to play with
>>> Chrome I should have been running it in a VM... but what can I say?  I
>>> got excited... and lazy.
>>>
>>> I know that plugins can be sandboxed if they are "Chromified," but
>>> it's my understanding that sandboxable plugins are few and far between
>>> right now and that most plugins run outside the sandbox just like they
>>> would in IE or Firefox.  Is there any way to completely disable
>>> support for non-sandboxed plugins until something like NoScript comes
>>> along for Chrome?
>>>
>>> (Also, I'm having a hard time finding detailed information on how
>>> Chrome manages security, so I apologize in advance if I've used the
>>> wrong terminology.  Is jail the right term instead?)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cameron
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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