A Closer Look At Chromium and Browser Security

GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware's continuing series on computing security has an interview with Adam Barth and Collin Jackson, members of Stanford University's Web Security Group and members of the team that developed Chromium, the open-source core behind Google Chrome. The interview goes into detail regarding the sandboxing approach unique to Chromium, comparisons between the browser and its competition, and web security in general."

Comments

Good

[maz2331]

These are all great ideas, and I hope Firefox and/or MSIE pick up on them, simply because I can't stand the Chrome UI.

Sorry, but that thing just isn't what a browser is supposed to be.

The uhderlying technology can be the greatest ever, but if the interface sucks, well, I won't use it.

Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

The uhderlying technology can be the greatest ever, but if the interface sucks, well, I won't use it.

That describes in a nutshell why OS/2 never caught on big.

Re:Good

[Genocaust]

I like others, also love the UI. It took some getting used to over Firefox, but I do like the clean look of being able to focus on actual content -- not the browser itself.
As to Adblock, yeah, wow, there are a lot of ads out there I didn't even know existed! Using OpenDNS I manage to block most of them just by domain through their blacklist service, though. It's not perfect, but better than nothing for now!

Re:Good

[malkir]

So you're just going to open a huge security hole in the process? You shouldn't have to sacrifice!

Re:Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE

[Tacvek]

Perhaps. My guess is they have logic like the following:

If you use Firefox, you probably already have heard about Chrome, and have decided not to switch. If you use IE, you probably have no idea that other browsers even exist, but you may know and like Google, so would be willing to give this Chrome thing a try.

Re:Adblock for Chrome -- Use SwWare Iron "Chrome"

[Anonymous Coward]

I just used that, went to the Slashdot Home page and began scrolling up and down, which made my computer lagged. CPU usage spiked heaps.

It's a good idea, and I hope they can improve it, but for now, it's not as good.

So alas I will continue to run both Chrome (for gmail and gcal) and FireFox (for everything else).

Re:Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course they are!

Firefox has the "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site" option checked by default. (Tools --> Options --> Security) This option sends every site one visits to Google for verification, so Google is already getting a complete history of each site visited for FF users. [IE sends this information to Microsoft.]

Thus, Google has more incentive to switch an IE user to Chrome than a FF user.

Not so good. Time to make gooder.

[JavaManJim]

I like Chrome's Home Page web thumbprints.

I dislike that I cannot control these. For example right now, I have two timesonline.uk up. Permanently it seems. The "tool" icon does not allow Home Page editing. It should.

So,
A. If anyone out there can enlighten me on how to adjust Home Page icons. Go ahead.
B. If not Chrome developers, are you listening? Add web page adjustments to the Home Page. Pretty please?

Thanks

Re:Adblock for Chrome -- Use SwWare Iron "Chrome"

[mcrbids]

rware Iron is Chrome compiled without all the Google spyware crap and it has adblock built in.

Unfortunately, they don't have a download in RPM or source form, so I can't install it on my Fedora Core 10 laptop.

Without *nix support, Chrome(ium) is a non-starter.