Gazelle (Gazelle) browser will show off next month - Microsoft's new browser

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft revealed the details of the Gazelle browser on the USENIX Security Symposium, which is scheduled to be held next month.

It is reported that the Microsoft Research website has already posted this news this week. USENIX is a security symposium for academic research experts. The Gazelle project was led by Helen Wang, project leader of the Microsoft Research Systems and Network Research Group. In February of this year, Helen Wang and her college classmates published a report on the Gazelle Browser. The report focuses on the security handling of IE 8 and Google Chrome, and points out that the Gazelle browser will choose a completely different approach - similar to the operating system's process control.

The report says that the gazelle is actually a "browser kernel" concept, similar to how the operating system handles programs. The Gazelle is made up of approximately 5,000 lines of C# code and is protected against memory attacks.

Gazelle is a secure browser with a variety of mainstream operating system architectures. How does the browser-based gazelle system improve security and reduce program resource usage?

The report pointed out that the so-called multiple mainstream operating system structure means that the Gazelle browser can handle multiple websites at the same time, any potential threats will be isolated, and failure to access individual websites will not cause the browser to crash. .

The Microsoft Research report emphasizes that the Gazelle is still in the research stage, and Microsoft has no "product prototype" yet.

Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, said that Microsoft Research's research involves every product of Microsoft, and Microsoft invests 17% of its revenue each year at Microsoft Research.