Avast Sandbox and Firefox Plugins Failing to Load

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Avast Internet Security 5.0.677 Final fails to allow the following roughly 50-75% of the time…

Firefox 3.6.9 (plugins are set to load into seperate threads as per default settings) → DivX Web Player plugin. Google Update plugin, Picasa plugin, Flash 10.1 plugin, Silverlight plugin, Yahoo Application plugin Fails to load in a sandbox.

SRware Iron 6.0.475 → Flash 10.1 fails to load in a sandbox.

Opera@USB Portable 10.61 → Flash 10.1 succeeds to load in a sandbox all of the time!

Not even going to bother trying IE 8 even in a sandbox.

Windows 7 Pro x64 (UAC is disabled)
AnVir Task Manager Pro 6.3.1
Process Lasso Pro 3.84.7 (firefox.exe and plugins.exe have been excluded from ProBalance Restraints)
Internet Download Manager 6.02 beta

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I can’t say I’ve checked as thoroughly as the OP, but I seem to have the same problem. With Firefox in AIS Sandbox, flash only loads occasionally.

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yeah… plugins and sandbox don’t like each other… hoping 5.1 will bring some improvement. Got the issue with flash player in all browsers + an issue with Java in IE9.

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Issue is still there in AIS 5.1.889. Flash player just refuses to load in Firefox 3.6.13

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I have no problem with Flash with Google Chrome sandboxed.

The Flash Player works fine:
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about

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Flash and all my extensions work fine for me in Firefox 3.6.13 when visualized in Avast IS 5.1.889. Tested on the rig in my sig. I have two more PC’s to check out, I’ll post back with the results.

Bill

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Does it work outside the sandbox in firefox 3.6.13 ?