Summary: By sandboxing Flash, Google says that Chrome crashes have dropped significantly. But Windows XP users now have a new incentive to stay on the ageing, security-lacking operating system.
Search engines has enhanced Display sandboxing in the latest edition of its Firefox internet browser for Windows, enhancing its protection and reducing accidents by as much as 20 %.
flash_crash_chromeA familiar sight for many.
Google ported Display off the aging NPAPI structure -- which it explains as "a slim part of stick between the web internet browser and a native application" -- and onto its own sandboxed foundation, PPAPI.
"By removing the complexness and heritage code associated with NPAPI we've reduced Display accidents by about 20 %," Bieber Schuh, a Search engines software professional, had written on the Chromium blog.
By sandboxing Display, a plug-in can collision without taking down the rest of the internet browser. Sandboxing was presented in early editions of Firefox to prevent criminal an eye from causing such total internet browser accidents, and as an anti-malware measure.
The change also means Windows 8 customers will be able to use all of a Web website's Display functions in 'Windows 8 mode', formerly known as City.
For Windows XP, the decade-old foundation with less in-built safety measures as later editions of Windows, sandboxing functions as an important entrance between the internet browser and the os. Schuh said there are around 100 million Firefox customers on Windows XP.
But Because Windows XP is still used by much of the business through lack of in reverse interface and a desire not to update, Chrome's making a solid message to the business.
Chrome was, a few months ago, the top internet browser for a day, according to StatCounter results. On Goal 18, the internet browser achieved a 32.7 % global business, but by Thursday it had dropped by 5 %, mostly due to a return to work and the majority of primary web browser's in the office continues to be Internet Traveler.
Combine that with Windows XP staying in a close 50/50 tie with Windows seven, it continues to be an ever-popular os in the business, despite its small decrease in business month-on-month, according to Net Applications.
Considering 99.9 % of Firefox customers rely on Display, most of whom are likely to be on Windows, that's a lot of customers a bit less disappointed.
To get the enhanced sandboxing, Windows customers should update to Firefox 22 if they haven't already, while Linux system customers will have had access to the new sand box since Firefox 20. Apple customers will see an OS X edition delivered "soon", Schuh said, but did not give a timescale.
flash_crash_chromeA familiar sight for many.
Google ported Display off the aging NPAPI structure -- which it explains as "a slim part of stick between the web internet browser and a native application" -- and onto its own sandboxed foundation, PPAPI.
"By removing the complexness and heritage code associated with NPAPI we've reduced Display accidents by about 20 %," Bieber Schuh, a Search engines software professional, had written on the Chromium blog.
By sandboxing Display, a plug-in can collision without taking down the rest of the internet browser. Sandboxing was presented in early editions of Firefox to prevent criminal an eye from causing such total internet browser accidents, and as an anti-malware measure.
The change also means Windows 8 customers will be able to use all of a Web website's Display functions in 'Windows 8 mode', formerly known as City.
For Windows XP, the decade-old foundation with less in-built safety measures as later editions of Windows, sandboxing functions as an important entrance between the internet browser and the os. Schuh said there are around 100 million Firefox customers on Windows XP.
But Because Windows XP is still used by much of the business through lack of in reverse interface and a desire not to update, Chrome's making a solid message to the business.
Chrome was, a few months ago, the top internet browser for a day, according to StatCounter results. On Goal 18, the internet browser achieved a 32.7 % global business, but by Thursday it had dropped by 5 %, mostly due to a return to work and the majority of primary web browser's in the office continues to be Internet Traveler.
Combine that with Windows XP staying in a close 50/50 tie with Windows seven, it continues to be an ever-popular os in the business, despite its small decrease in business month-on-month, according to Net Applications.
Considering 99.9 % of Firefox customers rely on Display, most of whom are likely to be on Windows, that's a lot of customers a bit less disappointed.
To get the enhanced sandboxing, Windows customers should update to Firefox 22 if they haven't already, while Linux system customers will have had access to the new sand box since Firefox 20. Apple customers will see an OS X edition delivered "soon", Schuh said, but did not give a timescale.
