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."

Comments

All Hype.

[inTheLoo]

You think Microsoft wants people to equate Firefox with security like you just did? This piece of vapor is all marketing.

This is more of the same from them, promising things they never deliver. Security has been job one for them for the last six years and it has yet to make a dent on the malware problem their customers have. Yet there they go again, "our next version of X will completely blow away the things you could enjoy from our competitors today." It gets tiresome.

The scant description makes their new concept sound like a Mosaic UAC and it's ripe for abuse. The company that's been accused of manipulating search results and political based email filtering would love to have a complicated "security" wrapped around the world wide web.

Re:Yeah, right.

[larry bagina]

And the MoFo likes to blame 3rd party extensions for FireFox's memory leaks and instability.

Re:Somewhat pointless?

[x2A]

It's not our fault that you bleed, go change your tampon and get back to taking your anger out on those who are actually responsible: your parents. None of us here fed them while they were fluking you into existence, so none of us are responsible for you being born a little bitch, and if you weren't such a little bitch, you'd realise that, and direct your PMS anger where it's a little more deserved.