Chrome Notes: Isolation achieved via application virtualization?

virtualization.info - Google uses application virtualization to isolate Chrome browser instances

“In June 2007 Google acquired a stealth-mode startup focused on application virtualization called GreenBorder.
As common practice, the search giant never detailed how it planned to use the technology.

Yesterday the company unveiled the first public beta of its own browser, Chrome, featuring the capability to isolate the instances running in each tab.

InformationWeek is reporting that this security feature depends on the GreenBorder technology.

While there’s no official confirmation, it makes sense and leaves open a wide range of possibilities …

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Interesting if true…

I believe we’ll be seeing much more application virtualization (AppV) in the future.

One of my big wish list items for Windows 7 is to have AppV included/backed in. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could distribute our .Net apps without worrying about if the correct framework were installed? Just one exe, double-click and go? No install, no setup, no pain to uninstall, no registry/file/etc jacking? The user being able to just click and go? And since a virtualized app's file/registry is sandboxed/virtualized it should help (a little at least) with security too? Talk about the true end to DLL-Hell...

Sure, it's not a silver bullet for all deployments, but still it's got to be better than today's... um... yeah?

 

Related Past Post XRef:
Google's Other Purchase Last Week - GreenBorder (Application Virtualization)