Microsoft Making Ultra-safe "Gazelle" Browser
Gazelle being designed to avoid internet predators.
While the world is talking about Google's upcoming Chrome OS set to hit in the second half of 2010, Microsoft's also been working on a secret browser/OS project.
Microsoft's project right now is codenamed Gazelle, and like how Chrome isolates various elements inside their own sandbox, it too will utilize similar security features.
Multiprocess browsing, used by Chrome and even the latest version of Internet Explorer, separates each webpage/tab as its own process. That means that if one page or tab crashes, the other pages opened are more likely to survive, requiring only the offending tab to be closed. This approach is undeniably safer, but also more demanding on system resources.
Gazelle takes it a step further than current browsers by more finely isolating elements of a page according to domain. It's just another step in making everything more secure, which is always a smart decision when it comes to serious business like the internet.
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"Microsoft's also been working on a secret browser/OS project"
We all have W7?... we know about the on coming WM7?.. what other secret OS is MS working on?
On the other hand, MS is really stepping up its game again when its seeing Google and other as a major future threat.
Too little too late M$.
I thought the whole point of tabbed browsing was that you save resources? Why would you then sacrifice that point? If you want multi process browsing use the 'new window' instead of 'new tab'
Security is more important than performance. Modern PCs are more than capable of delivering good browsing performance. Some additional overhead is unlikely to be noticeable and will be a price worth paying as long as video playback isn't impacted and script performance is maintained.
I for one welcome this move from our overlords. Some people will always hate everything MS does. Personally I use Firefox as I like the user experience however IE is currently the most secure OS in existence. Microsoft has done a fantastic job and is continuing that work. It had a dreadful starting place.
"IE is currently the most secure OS in existence" ???
No offence - but first: IE is not an OS, second it's not even average when it comes to security... Three letters are enough to back this statement up - OCX.