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Firefox 57 Brings Better Sandboxing on Linux (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what-to-know dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Firefox 57, set to be released tomorrow, will ship with improvements to the browser's sandbox security feature for Linux users. The Firefox sandboxing feature isolates the browser from the operating system in a way to prevent web attacks from using a vulnerability in the browser engine and its legitimate functions to attack the underlying operating system, place malware on the filesystem, or steal local files. Chrome has always run inside a sandbox. Initially, Firefox ran only a few plugins inside a sandbox -- such as Flash, DRM, and other multimedia encoding plugins.

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  1. Why Chrome and not Chromium? by short · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why does Slashdot always compare Firefox with proprietary Chrome when all the mentioned features does provide already Free Chromium?