Firefox Security to Improve with Sandboxing and JIT Hardening
The move to the new rapid release cycle has definitely spurred new blood into Firefox development. Firefox 10 is around the corner, even as Firefox 4 landed less than a year ago. In that time, the browser has evolved, it's faster, less memory hungry and boasts plenty of new features as well as better support for new web standards. But there's one department where Firefox may still be a little behind, security. Firefox is not an unsecure browser, compared the other popular browsers, but it is lacking some big features, especially those that Google Chrome , which has become the gold-standard, boasts, notably sandboxing and JIT hardening. According a recent interview though, Mozilla is working on just those very features, though work is more advanced in some aspects than in others. A recent report, created by an independent company but paid for by Google, found Firefox to be lacking in a couple of areas in particular. One of them is Just-in-Time compiling hardening, ...