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Microsoft Making Ultra-safe Gazelle Browser

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3:10 PM - July 13, 2009 by Marcus Yam

Gazelle being designed to avoid internet predators.

While the world is talking about Google's upcoming Chrome OS set to hit in the second half of 2010, Microsoft's also been working on a secret browser/OS project.

Microsoft's project right now is codenamed Gazelle, and like how Chrome isolates various elements inside their own sandbox, it too will utilize similar security features.

Multiprocess browsing, used by Chrome and even the latest version of Internet Explorer, separates each webpage/tab as its own process. That means that if one page or tab crashes, the other pages opened are more likely to survive, requiring only the offending tab to be closed. This approach is undeniably safer, but also more demanding on system resources.

Gazelle takes it a step further than current browsers by more finely isolating elements of a page according to domain. It's just another step in making everything more secure, which is always a smart decision when it comes to serious business like the internet.

Source : Tom's Hardware US

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lamorpa 07/13/2009 9:16 PM
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"serious business like the internet"? What??

eddieroolz 07/13/2009 9:17 PM
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I like! When will they have a beta test?

Hanin33 07/13/2009 9:28 PM
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gazelle! why not The Thunderbolt Grease Slapper?

hellwig 07/13/2009 9:29 PM
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Isolate data by domain? I told my browser to not accept cross-site cookies, and that hosed a bunch of sites for me. How are they going to seperate processing of the page by domain?

jacobdrj 07/13/2009 9:51 PM
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You guys really like that angry sun graphic representing evil online stuff, don't ya tom's...?...

WheelsOfConfusion 07/13/2009 9:56 PM
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I thought Gazelle was just a research project and not in the pipe to become a new product.

drunknmunkys 07/13/2009 9:58 PM
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lamorpa :
"serious business like the internet"? What??



haha. The internet is srsbsns!

jsloan 07/13/2009 10:01 PM
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Hanin33 :
gazelle! why not The Thunderbolt Grease Slapper?



what about "Dumb Azz Users", that a better name, more descriptive of the problem.

maybe instead of spending all the effort in the world on fixing what is not broken, why not implant electric shock device in web browser users and when they try something stupid we shock them until they learn better ;-)

Hanin33 07/13/2009 10:23 PM
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jsloan :
what about "Dumb Azz Users", that a better name, more descriptive of the problem.maybe instead of spending all the effort in the world on fixing what is not broken, why not implant electric shock device in web browser users and when they try something stupid we shock them until they learn better ;-)



trying to fix the behavior of monkeys by way of other monkeys on crack is hardly a solution... can't fix the problem if the tools needed are also broken...

ColMirage 07/13/2009 11:15 PM
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drunknmunkys :
haha. The internet is srsbsns!



But, it is :P. Do you realize how much the economy depends on it nowdays? If the Internet disappeared tomorrow it would be a catastrophe for hundred of thousands of people.

tenor77 07/14/2009 12:21 PM
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Ultra safe and they name it after a prey in Africa?

Fail.

Raidur 07/14/2009 3:10 AM
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Hell, if the internet disappeared there would be more suicides than a Green Day concert.

After IE I don't know if I'll be using another Microsoft browser.

computabug 07/14/2009 4:08 AM
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Copycats... >.>

Microshit is copy-I mean, following, Google because Google is that good that they're a year ahead of Microshit. It just makes Google look better :)

matt87_50 07/14/2009 6:08 AM
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if Microsoft thinks its such a good idea, why don't they build it into their OS! make it so we can make a "thread" that is more isolated. or give us better exception handling? they just seem to be blindly following google now

Anonymous 07/14/2009 7:48 AM
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I use k-meleonCCF and now also qtweb (os). IE is, to me, on par with firefox in the cpu usage dept. FF still has memory issues as well. Believe me, ms NEEDS a new image. It's not that I dislike IE, it's just that I have grown accustomed to simply not using it at all. Plus K-meleonccf and qtweb are both better browsers imo.
Sounds to me like an afterthought, but even so I would welcome a fresh face to the omnipresent IE.

Regulas 07/14/2009 1:48 PM
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Typical MS, copy, copy copy the idea and if you can't do that steal it and if that don't work buy them out or sue them into oblivion. I wouldn't trust this new MS spyware browser, Chrome is just fine.

Netherscourge 07/14/2009 3:17 PM
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They should call it "webWOW!"

Like ShamWOW!

And have that goofy guy talk about it on infomercials.

Netherscourge 07/14/2009 3:19 PM
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The only way to make a browser 100% safe is to strip it down to the point where no scripts will run - which means lifeless webpages with no bells or whistles. Basically, a generic internet.

But good luck getting sponsors for websites who can't advertise via scripts and banners.

p05esto 07/14/2009 6:33 PM
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Ah MS bashers. These companies all copy each other. History has proven however the MS successfully builds on the ideas of others and then makes a superior product. IE became better than Netscape, Xbox became better than Playstation, Windows was better than Apple, etc. A lot fo ways MS did this. Who cares, let them all keep competing - consumers are the winners here fools. We need MS, Apple, Google, AMD/Intel, etc etc to all remain competitive and outdoing each other. Right?

descendency 07/14/2009 9:21 PM
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So safe... it doesn't even connect to the internet!

noobinberg 07/14/2009 9:24 PM
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p05esto :
Ah MS bashers. These companies all copy each other. History has proven however the MS successfully builds on the ideas of others and then makes a superior product. IE became better than Netscape, Xbox became better than Playstation, Windows was better than Apple, etc. A lot fo ways MS did this. Who cares, let them all keep competing - consumers are the winners here fools. We need MS, Apple, Google, AMD/Intel, etc etc to all remain competitive and outdoing each other. Right?


You're stating a lot of opinions as fact but, in reality they're just that; opinions. I think that OSX beats WinXP/Vista hands down in performance. But, that's just my opinion. There may be benchmarks out there to prove it, but you won't find them on Tom's. Before I start rambling, the subject at hand:

MS and Secure should NEVER be in the same sentence. Each time MS provides a security update it's hacked within days. It's the price they pay for having the most popular OS/Browser on the market. Once this NEW product is released, it will be exploited within a week...make no mistake, you take your chances with MS products...I'll stick with Ubuntu/Firefox...the likelihood of it getting hacked is far less than the MS browser...Besides it's getting too expensive to keep up with their haphazard OS releases lately.

noobinberg 07/14/2009 9:29 PM
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.....and as for the name! Who thinks up this crap? I've seen this on discovery channel "Watch as the hungry lion stalks the gazelle in the tall grass." I mean C'mon...Gazelle? Really? What's so secure about a gazelle? All I've ever heard or seen about them is that they're lunch.

noobinberg 07/14/2009 9:32 PM
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Netherscourge :
They should call it "webWOW!"Like ShamWOW!And have that goofy guy talk about it on infomercials.


Billy Mays died...they'd have to superimpose images from previous infomercials.

Andy_Newton 07/15/2009 5:12 AM
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Leopard eats Gazelle. So do Tiger & Jaguar. So does Panther. And perhaps Cheetah eats gazelle too.

The ancient Chinese are very picky with naming conventions for things around them, why does Microsoft have to imitate the modern ones instead? Maybe Microsoft really is that inferior to Apple.

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