http://www.roboformchrome.com/ Unofficial forums for RoboForm and Google Chrome. en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:06:15 +0000 http://www.roboformchrome.com/topic/the-google-chrome-sandbox#post-31 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:01 +0000 Claudiu 31@http://www.roboformchrome.com/ <p>The Chromium blog team explained a little bit how the sandbox in Google Chrome protects you when browsing. As a note, Google Chrome is the web browser that Google released, while Chromium the open source project from which Google Chrome is compiled.</p> <p>As for the explanation of the sandbox:</p> <blockquote><p>Chromium helps protect your computer from malware by running some parts of the browser in a sandbox. The sandbox tries to limit what an attacker can do after exploiting a bug. In particular, the sandbox aims to prevent malicious web sites from automatically installing software on your computer and from reading confidential files on your hard drive.</p> <p>[...] The sandbox doesn't prevent every kind of attack (for example, it doesn't stop phishing or cross-site scripting), but it should make it harder for attackers to get to your files.</p></blockquote> <p>The full post can be read <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/security-architecture.html">here</a>. This kind of "each tab as a process in a sandbox" implementation resembles less with a browser, and more to an operating system - what many other people think that Google is going to transform Chrome into. </p>