Around the time this was posted to HN, Stuart Morgan of Google and the Chromium project added a comment to the bug report that "this is a security feature that

Around the time this was posted to HN, Stuart Morgan of Google and the Chromium project added a comment to the bug report that "this is a security feature that is applied to certain specific plugins even when they are up to date." http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78768#c1 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=78768#c1 [speculation] Maybe it's to do with this, patched in a new OS X release only a couple of weeks ago? "An integer overflow existed in QuickTime's handling of movie files. Viewing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. " http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10770 http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=10770 [/speculation]