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Google Quietly Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature for 99% of Chrome Desktop Users (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Google has quietly enabled a security feature called Site Isolation for 99% of its desktop users on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. This happened in Chrome 67, released at the end of May. From a report: Site Isolation isn't a new feature per-se, being first added in Chrome 63, in December 2017. Back then, it was only available if users changed a Chrome flag and manually enabled it in each of their browsers. The feature is an architectural shift in Chrome's modus operandi because when Site Isolation is enabled, Chrome runs a different browser process for each Internet domain. Initially, Google described Site Isolation as an "additional security boundary between websites," and as a way to prevent malicious sites from messing with the code of legitimate sites.

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  1. 10% by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Informative

    10% memory usage increase, according to the article. Defends against spectre and meltdown somewhat.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  2. Disabled by default? by iamagloworm · · Score: 5, Informative

    99% of users? I am on the latest chrome and it was disabled for me. Check at chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process

  3. Re:Registered /.ers review of the Win64 model by nullbort · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://pi-hole.net/