It seems to me to be a feature beyond scope of a browser. But the sandbox module used by Chrome on Windows should be re-usable in such application.
However, renderer processes are sandboxed very heavily in Chrome. They can't read any files, interact with the desktop etc. It's probably customizable though. On 25 Mar, 20:59, kendal <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but I have been > wondering about the feasibility of an ambitious extension to Chrome. > The biggest problem with Windows, as I see it, is it's lack of > security. Given that so much of the effort of Chrome is to thoroughly > sandbox processes, then could this sandboxing be extended to > sandboxing local apps as well? Chrome could display a graphical file > view of local and remote apps that could be run as sandboxed > processes. Many applications could fit in this paradigm. Chrome > could develop into a preferred interface/environment for running > applications safely across multiple OSs. > > Kendal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
