[tor-bugs] #12455 [Tor bundles/installation]: Flash Player files sometimes start in background-using TB-without user action

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#12455: Flash Player files sometimes start in background-using TB-without user
action
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     Reporter:  joebt                |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor                  |    Version:
  bundles/installation               |   Keywords:  plugin, Flash Player,
   Resolution:                       |  Tor Browser
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Comment (by joebt):

 Attachment added:  screen of Torbrowser >Options>Applications.

 No Flash application listed in that TB screen.  It's quite possible I
 never played ANY Flash content in this version of TB.

 A Flash "entry" is listed in vanilla Fx - Applications as '''"Always
 ask."'''  The plugin is also disabled in vanilla Fx.

 In dozens of times that Flash processes have started in background (__W/O
 playing Flash content__), they're always shown as child processes under TB
 plugin container; to my knowledge, never under vanilla Fx.  And if the TB
 plugin container process is killed OR TB is closed, the 2 Flash processes
 immediately close.

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