Dell KACE : Virtualized Firefox 3.6 Browser

The manufacturer has put online a version of Firefox running in a sandbox. The browser comes with Adobe Flash and Reader and a system of traffic control.

The most vulnerable part of a system vis-a-vis is the Web browser. It is from this finding that the subsidiary Dell Kace has decided to put online Secure Browser. A version of Firefox 3.6 in sandbox, isolated from the rest of the system.

The browser and the latest versions of Flash and Adobe Reader, therefore, provides a limited risk of infection and crash: If a problem occurs it is limited to the sandbox.

A virtualized Firefox?

This software is based on the technology of Computers in Motion, bought two years ago. Bob Kelly, product manager at Dell Kace, brings its functioning on a virtualization application.

Secure Browser also allows you to select which processes and sites are accepted through a system of white and black lists. In case of problems, return to the initial stage is also accelerated. Dell is so well understood before the productivity gains that result.

The company admits a certain resemblance to the functioning of Google Chrome, helped by the acquisition of GreenBorder Technologies in 2007. Remember that Firefox had himself started this trend by isolating plugins via its technology in Electrolysis Firefox 3.6.4.

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