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Microsoft Research Showcases New Browser Prototype, "Gazelle"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the foxes-gazelles-and-natural-selection dept.

Ars Technica reports that Microsoft has opened up about "Gazelle," a new browser prototype of theirs that is modeled after the underlying concepts of operating system design. "A research team led by Microsoft's Helen Wang recently published a report about an experimental browser prototype called 'Gazelle' that uses processes to isolate page content elements originating from different domains. It builds on the concept of multiprocess browsing but uses more fine-grained isolation to expand on the security advantages that are already delivered by existing multiprocess browsing models. But is it an operating system, Microsoft Research's analogue to Google's Chrome OS? Not quite."

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  1. Perhaps those technologies need to be broken. by Kupfernigk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some of Microsoft's technologies - like data files that can execute code - need to be broken. It is sometimes necessary to sacrifice convenience for a degree of security. The personal computer industry has been slowly coming to terms with this for the last 10 years or so, it would be nice if we don't have to wait another 10 before it all works properly.

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  2. Not new by BitZtream · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless if by new you mean:
    From february at least, seems older to me: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79655

    Has already appeared on slashdot and a hundred other tech sites.

    http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/22/1724244

    Its hard to google before you run to try and get a story submitted isn't it?

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  3. Re:Color me less excited :/ by PsychicX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But it's not supposed to be a product! MS --> Research --. It's an architectural experiment, and sure, a lot of projects graduate from Research to an actual product group. The goal is NOT to make something you can take to the open market though. It's a proper research lab, and so of course its stuff is frequently lacking. If it were to be converted to a product, it'd be staffed up with a full team who would spend a year or two -- or seven in the case of some unfortunate victims -- making it viable for public consumption.