Microsoft researchers' Gazelle aims to secure Web browsing

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service |  Internet, Microsoft, web browser Add a new comment

February 23, 2009, 9:41 AM — Microsoft researchers are developing a new Web browser that they say could offer a far greater degree of security than Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox or Microsoft's own Internet Explorer.

The browser, called Gazelle, relies on 5,000 lines of C# code called a "browser kernel" that helps enforce security rules to prevent malicious access to the PC's underlying operating system, according to a recently published paper.

 

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