diff --git a/sources/news/20210519 Mozilla Firefox Is Adding Capabilities to Defend Against Malicious Sites on Desktop.md b/sources/news/20210519 Mozilla Firefox Is Adding Capabilities to Defend Against Malicious Sites on Desktop.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..087fdc561d --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/news/20210519 Mozilla Firefox Is Adding Capabilities to Defend Against Malicious Sites on Desktop.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +[#]: subject: (Mozilla Firefox Is Adding Capabilities to Defend Against Malicious Sites on Desktop) +[#]: via: (https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-defending-malicious-sites/) +[#]: author: (Ankush Das https://news.itsfoss.com/author/ankush/) +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: ( ) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) + +Mozilla Firefox Is Adding Capabilities to Defend Against Malicious Sites on Desktop +====== + +Mozilla Firefox is a popular privacy-oriented, free and open-source web browser. While privacy and security were always the core focus of their offering, they are introducing a security architecture to isolated websites. + +While this was something already present in Chromium, Mozilla has finally joined the party. + +It basically changes the way how Mozilla Firefox works on desktop in the background, without affecting the user experience. It is available to test with Firefox beta/nightly, and will roll out to stable releases soon. + +Here, I highlight the key takeaways from the [official announcement][1]. + +### Site Isolation to Protect Against Malicious Attacks + +With site isolation security architecture, every website that you load will have a separate process in the operating system. + +This will make sure that no malicious component of a website can access any information from another website that you access. + +In other words, every website loaded stays isolated from each other by having unique processes in the operating system. Just like the Total Cookie Protection feature introduced with [Firefox 86][2], which separated cookies for every website. + +![][3] + +Here’s what the announcement mentions about it: + +> In more detail, whenever you open a website and enter a password, a credit card number, or any other sensitive information, you want to be sure that this information is kept secure and inaccessible to malicious actors. +> +> As a first line of defence Firefox enforces a variety of security mechanisms, e.g. the [same-origin policy][4] which prevents adversaries from accessing such information when loaded into the same application. + +This is definitely something that should be useful in the long run because this happens automatically and you do not have to enable anything to activate the security feature. + +### Secure Browsing Experience With Firefox + +Technically, the site isolation still depends on the guarantees of the operating system memory protection, but it is a big step towards securing the browsing experience. + +In addition to separating every website and its information, there are a couple of other benefits to this new addition as well. + +Just because every website will have a different process, when one of the sites that you load require more computing power, it will not necessarily affect the responsiveness of other sites. Similarly, if a tab crashes, it will not affect other websites on other tabs. + +Also, this will enable the browser to efficiently use multiple cores in a modern processor and going forward. + +For more technical details, and how to test it, you can go through the [official details][1]. + +#### Big Tech Websites Get Millions in Revenue, It's FOSS Got You! + +If you like what we do here at It's FOSS, please consider making a donation to support our independent publication. Your support will help us keep publishing content focusing on desktop Linux and open source software. + +I'm not interested + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-defending-malicious-sites/ + +作者:[Ankush Das][a] +选题:[lujun9972][b] +译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译,[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/ankush/ +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-site-isolation-security-architecture/ +[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-86-release/ +[3]: data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyBoZWlnaHQ9IjY2OCIgd2lkdGg9IjQ3MiIgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnIiB2ZXJzaW9uPSIxLjEiLz4= +[4]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-origin_policy