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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. Why doesn't MS just rename itself "Bing" already by fridaynightsmoke · · Score: -1, Troll

    Then they can say "Look! We're not copying Google- "Bing Is Not Google", it's in our name!!"

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  2. Re:Standards by bertoelcon · · Score: -1, Troll

    Leave it to Microsoft to break something and force the world to succumb to their will, again.

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  3. Any chance of it complying with the standards? by jcr · · Score: 0, Troll

    If MS ever ships a browser that passes ACID 3, let me know. Until and unless that happens, MS's offerings in this area are a waste of space.

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  4. right on cue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    m$ develop chrome rip off - they must be worried.... (they should be!)