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Is There Room For a Secure Web Browser?
An anonymous reader points out an eWeek story about researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who are designing a new web browser based on security. The new software, code-named OP for Opus Palladianum, will separate various components of the browser into subsystems which are monitored and managed by the browser kernel. Quoting:
"'We believe Web browsers are the most important network-facing application, but the current browsers are fundamentally flawed from security perspective,' King said in an interview with eWEEK. 'If you look at how the Web was originally designed, it was an application with static Web pages as data. Now, it has become a platform for hosting all kinds of important data and businesses, but unfortunately, [existing] browsers haven't evolved to deal with this change and that's why we have a big malware problem.' The idea behind the OP security browser is to partition the browser into smaller subsystems and make all communication between subsystems simple and explicit."
The kid-Blake Ross that worked(haha, more like cut and paste) on Firefox didn't do much other than reduce mozillas size to create firefox. He really didn't program anything.
Now firefox is just google's bitch for ad money kickbacks. $10 million dollars a year to him.
http://www.dulcenegosyante.com/top-20-internet-millionaires-under-30/
Although ff beta is not bad and has reduced memory usage but still way buggy.
Oprah is better than regular Firefox and only opensource people with an agenda have been pushing FF because it was viewed as holy,free and not compromising to greedy companies. Not so fast....
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