Enabling the Adobe Reader X plugin from Virtualized Browsers

I think I have this one figured out. From virtualized web browsers, I have never been able to use the Adobe Reader X plugin. The Virtual app would start to load any pdf and then crash with a message about a corrupt sandbox (ZAV application sandbox). This would happen if Adobe reader was installed on the machine or virtualized as a shared component. This may be because ARX runs out of its own sandbox. I have now got this working, I will do some testing from some other Browsers.
Application = Virtualized IE8 Configured from a recipe using ZAV 9
Fix = add the following to the "Child Process exception list"
Acropdf.dll; Acroiehelper.dll; Gbdetect.dll; and Pdfshell.dll
Virtual IE8 can now display PDF's using the web plugin. I will test with firefox and report back.

I had a chance to build this into a virtual Firefox, here are the results.
App = Firefox 12 build from snapshot with the latest flash built into the snapshot.
Test Machines all had different versions of ARX installed.
Child Process Exception List = Acropdf.dll; Acroiehelper.dll; Gbdetect.dll; and Pdfshell.dll + AcroRd32.exe < Would not work with only the dll's in there
Outcome, this does work, I have seen it load the plugin, load full adobe in the browser or just directly hand the pdf over to adobe application. I have had limited testing with this though. Any updates an I will post them.

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