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The plugin click to enable in chrome is built-in.

And what do you mean flashblock in Firefox doesn't help? If you don't intentionally activate the plugin it can't hurt you.



the last time I looked at the Flashblock code for Firefox there was a way to still exploit a flash vuln by slowing the page load down or intercepting DOMContentInserted

Chrome is definitely vulnerable. They are a few versions away from making the blocking API non-experimental.


Using an extension to block may be vulnerable but the builtin click to activate is different. No API involved, I can go to youtube with click-to-activate turned on and it doesn't even spin up a plugin process until I click.




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