Firefox Fission: A Groundbreaking Change


Firefox Project Fission is an ongoing development effort  that is supposed to fundamentally improve the security  and privacy of the web browser.  It will finally introduce site isolation to Firefox  which sandboxes web pages,  completely isolating them from each other.  Websites are already not supposed to access each other's data  but security bugs do happen  and attackers can exploit these.  

A quick example:  In the current state,  this entire page runs in a single process  and an undisclosed bug in Firefox  could theoretically allow example.com  to access data from the embedded social media sites.  With site isolation,  all three websites would run in separate processes  and each would reject any requests from other,  potentially malicious processes.  Project Fission is not finished yet  but you can try it out  by opening the about:config page in Firefox  and enabling the values  "fission.autostart"  and "gfx.webrender.all".

Roy

I have lot of interest in collecting information and spreading it to everyone. and that is the actual reason why I'm here on this platform?

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