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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. Firefoxalypse by freeze128 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dread updating to Firefox 57, because it will break all of my plugins.

    1. Re: Firefoxalypse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      That's great, except for the part where some plugins CANNOT be implemented under the new API.

      And the part where a whole ecosystem of perfectly good extensions created by volunteers for free is being discarded without a viable replacement for many of them.

  2. A question for Mozilla by hyades1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it called "Firefox 57" because that's how many users are left?

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