![]() Read more about internet in Computerworld's Internet Topic Center. His email address is more by Gregg Keizer on. Follow Gregg on Twitter at on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. To protect your computer against any malicious activity, Firefox runs any kind of untrusted code in a sandbox. Let’s see how it differs regarding different types of web browsers. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Most of the browsers already have a sandbox to enhance your computer protection. Protecting your PC against online threats isn’t an easy task, but it’s easier if you’re using a sandboxed web browser. So far this year, Adobe has patched Flash Player nine time: once in February, twice in March, once each in May and June, twice in August, and once each in October and November.Ĭhrome 23 also introduced the "Do Not Track" (DNT) privacy feature Google was the last major browser maker to add DNT support. Google has been bundling Flash with its Chrome browser for more than two years, one way it has tried to stifle attacks of the frequently-vulnerable software. The two companies' wildly-different estimates stem from their divergent methodologies: Net Applications counts unique users while StatCounter tracks page views. Last month, it put Google's share at 34.8%, making it the world's most-used browser. Rival measurement company StatCounter, however, has long had a much different take on Chrome. The maker of Flash issued a sandboxed plug-in for Mozilla's Firefox last May, and has worked with Microsoft to integrate Flash with Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) on Windows 8 and Windows RT.Īccording to Web metrics company Net Applications, Chrome accounted for 18.6% of the world's browsers used in October, putting it in third place behind IE and Firefox. Code within a web page has a great deal of difficulty getting out into Windows unless. ![]()
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