I'm using it to pen this, and been using it the last few hours.
Strategically the isolation (separate process and memory per tab) features and in-build security checks will allow applications to be lifted from an OS into the cloud, with comparative ease.
Tactically is seems to pick up the same settings for IE as set by AD, so it may already be somewhat fit for the Enterprise, unlike Firefox.
Operationally it?s blisteringly fast, and renders beautifully, so far.
On the down sides
- a vulnerability has already been found, because they were sloppy with their webkit library version http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843 ?
- plugins can break out of the sandbox and nail the OS (no different than other browser) by their own admission
- no master password (can't find it anyway) to protect cached passwords
- poor cookie management, I always discard mine at the end and I don't want to be in 'porn mode' all the time.
- Yet another browser for web or web-app developers to code for.
An impressive beta, although the 0.2beta designation is probably more a 'management of expectations trick', as this has had some serious work put into it.
Strategically the isolation (separate process and memory per tab) features and in-build security checks will allow applications to be lifted from an OS into the cloud, with comparative ease.
Tactically is seems to pick up the same settings for IE as set by AD, so it may already be somewhat fit for the Enterprise, unlike Firefox.
Operationally it?s blisteringly fast, and renders beautifully, so far.
On the down sides
- a vulnerability has already been found, because they were sloppy with their webkit library version http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1843 ?
- plugins can break out of the sandbox and nail the OS (no different than other browser) by their own admission
- no master password (can't find it anyway) to protect cached passwords
- poor cookie management, I always discard mine at the end and I don't want to be in 'porn mode' all the time.
- Yet another browser for web or web-app developers to code for.
An impressive beta, although the 0.2beta designation is probably more a 'management of expectations trick', as this has had some serious work put into it.
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