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Posted by ASCII on June 10, 2008, 2:54 am
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VanguardLH wrote:
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>> VanguardLH wrote:
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>>>Why would there be any advantage for firewalling just one application?
>>>Sandboxing: yes. Web browser: why?
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>> Just guessing that the primary interface (browser)
>> to the major source of danger (internet)
>> is the most likely focus of concern.
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>Which would be covered by a general firewall that enforces connectivity
>on any particular application, including the web browser.
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>> Sandboxing would be an unnecessary encumbrance
>> if all your applications were trusted
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>You just said that you didn't trust the web browser. Sandboxing doesn't
>sandbox every application. It sandboxes just the application that you
>want sandboxed. Have a look at Sandboxie.
I never said I didn't trust the browser, just offered a guess as to why
it would include firewall behavior.
>>>And why promote a BETA version?
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>> Not really 'promoting' it (I have no interest in the company) it was the
>> version I finally upgraded to from an earlier legacy v6.06 that I used
>> to run with everything from ATGuard to ZoneAlarm, but there are still
>> enough unresolved bugs that I've now gone back to the stable v9.27.
>> This version seems a little faster loading pages yet just as invisible
>> and/or invulnerable, so I'll stay here for awhile.
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>And as for the part that you snipped out, just WHERE does Opera claim
>that their beta 9.5 version contains a firewall within just their
>browser?
I don't recall them ever making such a claim, even though I was
surmising that it behaved as if it had a built in firewall.
Hey I'm not like that other twit that's only here to bicker and flame, I
was simply curious about the behavior of a browser I had just installed.
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