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."

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Adblock for Chrome -- Use SwWare Iron "Chrome"

[blahbooboo]

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

I LOVE IT! Firefox (all versions) is sooooo slow compared to Chrome/Iron.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

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

[sortius_nod]

So what about its adblock, the thing doesn't render pages correctly. From what I can tell it is a badly compiled version of chrome.

When they get it right, then I might think about using it... uninstall time.

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

[blahbooboo]

So what about its adblock, the thing doesn't render pages correctly. From what I can tell it is a badly compiled version of chrome.

When they get it right, then I might think about using it... uninstall time.

I get some weird font smoothing occassionally on Slashdot, otherwise works perfectly for me. It's so blazing fast when I go back to Firefox I am shocked how agonizingly slow the browser is to render pages...

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

[blahbooboo]

Thanks for the link man. I'm sick of firefox cause of its slowness, but I was also getting sick of Chrome, so this should be a good alternative.

Does anyone have the following problems I have with Chrome?

(1) It freezes up continually, and when it does freeze up, it effects the entire computer.

(2) When accidently clicking on a PDF link the entire thing crashes, and computer freezes up.

I love chrome cause of its speed, but goddamn. The amount of restarts of my computer I've had with it I'm seriously looking for another browser (NOT firefox).

Are you using Adobe Acrobat for PDFs? That's likely your problem and not the browser.

Uninstall that crap and use Foxit PDF Reader instead.

Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE

[Anonymous Coward]

When I go to the main google page in IE 8, it has this huge icon telling me to use Chrome in the top right corner. When I go there in FF, its not there. Is google singling out IE users?

Re:Good

[PopeRatzo]

Maybe instead of complaining about a browser that displays ads, you might want to stop visiting websites that have intrusive and overwhelming ads.

I use Slashdot and Chrome and don't see any ads because I'm a subscriber, but even if I wasn't, the low number of ads here is one reason I like it.

Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always felt that the OS/2 UI was far superior to the Windows versions of the time (3.x/95). Heck, it makes more sense to me then Windows Vista/7 does.

Re:Good

[similar_name]

My biggest complaint about the interface is it unnecessarily creates its own window/title bar. As such I can't use RBtray on it to keep Chrome windows 'always on top'. Which I like to do so I can stick a hulu window in the corner of my screen while I'm browsing.

Re:Good

[Bert64]

I used to run a browser in a chroot on linux, partly because i had a 64bit system but needed some 32bit plugins (java, flash) and partly for the security benefit...
In terms of user files, you simply leave them in the sandbox, the host system can access the sandbox but the sandbox can't access the host which is how it should be.