Microsoft Research Showcases New Browser Prototype, "Gazelle" 125
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."
New MS browser (Score:4, Funny)
Oh boy! A more secure browser from the pros at secure browsing, Microsoft.
Re:New Focus (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gazelle? How about Tree Sloth? (Score:5, Funny)
Cool! I am totally there! (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds neat. I shall get it immediately.
Well, right after I get Windows 7, which will be after I get Vista, which will be after i get XP which will be after I decide microsoft have done anything worthwhile after Windows 2000.
Boy, don't we miss x86 segments! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, we were so eager to get rid of segments that by the time 80386 more or less perfected them, we dumped them for flat mode. Now they are gone in x86-64, likely never to return. What a terrible mistake! If we had different segments, we could have a lightweight browser process with user space threads assigning segments to different domains on the page. Instead of trying to get protection by wrapping software sandboxes around everything like Java, C# or something else does, we could have the CPU actually doing it. If only I could go back in time and say to myself, as I fumed over the likes of ES:CX... and say, no no, this will actually turn about to be a good thing in the future!
Re:Gazelle? How about Tree Sloth? (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly they named it Gazelle because ultimately they expect it to be killed off by safari.
Re:New MS browser (Score:5, Funny)