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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by gsnedders on Sunday March 08, 2015 @12:49AM (#9164729)
Chrome did? IE7 shipped with pretty tight sandboxing in 2006 — and Chrome was only announced in 2008!
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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by greggman on Sunday March 08, 2015 @05:00AM (#9165055)
well let's see. in 2014 there were 214 code exploits in IE vs 4 in Chrome. I don't think IE's sandbox can really be considered tight

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/9900/Microsoft-Internet-Ex...

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?v...

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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by throwawaykf05 on Sunday March 08, 2015 @10:18AM (#9165642)
Still doesn't change the fact that Chrome did not "pioneer" sandboxing.
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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by xeromal on Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:54AM (#9165953)
If the pioneer dies before he gets to california, he doesn't get the credit.
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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by strcat on Sunday March 08, 2015 @12:14PM (#9166035)
There is no Windows sandbox (including the Chromium one) that's comparable to the quality of Chromium's Linux implementation.

Note that seccomp is a layer on top of the layer-1 sandbox implementation based on a chroot and namespaces. There is no equivalent to the layer-2 sandbox used to protect against kernel vulnerabilities on other platforms.

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Re:Google Chromium drops support for Linux 3.16 and earlier by yuhong on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:38AM (#9164825)
Only on Vista and later though.
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