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Firefox Sandbox.....

holy7161
holy7161
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So,Ii have been using chrome since i was born, and i have decided of shifting from chrome to firfox as now privicy is my concern, people are not recomending to do it, they say, firefox dosent have and a thing or a feature known as sandbox, accoring to them, as firefox dosent have any sandbox, i came around a malware site, it can even affect at the os level, people say sandbox is not avalibe on both android and windows devices,

so i want to know the really from the community, whats the truth??

So,Ii have been using chrome since i was born, and i '''have decided of shifting from chrome to firfox as now privicy is my concern''', '''people are not recomending to do it, they say, firefox dosent have and a thing or a feature known as sandbox, accoring to them, as firefox dosent have any sandbox, i came around a malware site, it can even affect at the os level, people say sandbox is not avalibe on both android and windows devices, ''' ''so i want to know the really from the community, whats the truth?? ''

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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That information could be 5 years old now. Over time, Firefox's "sandbox" -- technology that runs web content with restricted privileges to make changes on your computer -- keeps getting stronger. There is an optional feature code-named "fission" to further improve site isolation that you can enable (it is still in the last round of testing).

If you're interested in how browser sandboxes work, I saw a great video recently that uses Firefox as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StQ_6juJlZY

Android security works completely differently than Windows, so someone else will need to reply about that.