Re: Firefox slow?

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 07:58:31PM -0500, Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > > Chrome has it's own security problems.  (a lot of them).  While I agree
> it's a freaking fast browser, I'm still on Safari.
>
> Chrome is sandboxed. Very, very few of the vulnerabilities in it are
> exploitable in a meaningful way. In fact, the critical vulnerability they
> reported yesterday
> (http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2011/01/new_chrome_version_includes_
> cr.php) is actually not exploitable because it's not in live code.


The sandbox is currently broken.  I know people that can get out of it.
For obvious reasons, I can't really disclose more than that.


> I'd send you the list of critical vulnerabilities in Safari, but I'm
> afraid Verizon will start throttling my account for excessive bandwidth
> usage.


I understand that.  They are essentially the same engine, if it affects
Safari, it'll probably affect Chrome, but not necessarily vice versa.

J
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