Google Chrome Article.

[Nalyk]

I just read this article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...e-security,2271-4.html

and being the nub that I am, I don't understand what the main speaker means by sandboxing, in reference to the rendering engine of the google chrome kernal. Can some give me an explaination?

Thanks,
Nalyk

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: Nalyk
I just read this article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/re...e-security,2271-4.html

and being the nub that I am, I don't understand what the main speaker means by sandboxing, in reference to the rendering engine of the google chrome kernal. Can some give me an explaination?

Thanks,
Nalyk

Sandboxing means that the rendering is boxed in and isolated from the OS. The benefit of sandboxing is malware is isolated from the rest of the system. IE 7 and 8 have a similar feature called protected mode which is a major feature of UAC. Firefox does not use sandboxing so is less secure than browsers that do have it.

Hope this helps.

 

[Nalyk]

Yup thanks, that helped a lot. ^^