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A Closer Look At Chromium and Browser Security

Posted by Soulskill on from the such-as-it-is dept.

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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  1. Re:Good by mhousser · · Score: 5, Informative

    I love the interface! What I don't love, however, are the millions of ads that I forgot existed. I'll move to Chrome the minute it supports plugins and AdBlocker is ported to it. Chrome's plugin API will be finished later this year.

  2. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It supports greasemonkey scripts if you append --enable-user-scripts to its shortcut. And theres a script for it that works exactly like adblock.

  3. Adblock for Chrome -- Use SwWare Iron "Chrome" by blahbooboo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

  4. Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE by Tacvek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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    2. Re:Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or maybe they just wrote the page such that standards-compliant browsers won't show the advert.

    3. Re:Google Main Page Says To Use Chrome Only In IE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I am sorry but that's incorrect. Firefox uses a local database of suspicious URLs that is updated every 30 min. URLs are never send to Google, Google sends suspicious URLs to Firefox.

      The functionality you describe was optional in older versions of Firefox (to eliminate the max 30 min. delay for ultra paranoid people) but was removed on request of Google because it caused them too much load.