Mozilla is releasing a new security feature that it claims will make Firefox the safest browser in the market. It’s a new sandboxing tool called RLBox that the business created in partnership with the University California San Diego and the University of Texas and is available with today’s Firefox 95 version.
Sandboxing is used by all current browsers to safeguard users dangerous code. The problem is that many of the more sophisticated exploits combine two flaws to get around those safeguards. Firefox complies a process into WebAssembly and then converts it to native code using RLBox. This strategy, according to Mozilla, has two key advantages. It stops code hopping between sections of a program and restricts access to specified memory locations on your machines.
What is RLBox Sandboxing ?
RLBox isolates potentially problematic code by using WebAssembly. Graphite, Hunspell, Ogg, Expat and Woff2 are the five modules that the browsers isolates. Mozilla claims that it can consider these modules are untrusted code, preventing any vulnerabilities, including zero-days, from, causing issues.
Many threats actors attack by exploiting two vulnerabilities at the same time. With RLBox, programs can not access memory outside of a specified zone or leap to unanticipated parts of the rest of the program. It’s basically contained, which means that threat actors won’t be able to harm your machine by exploiting various vulnerabilities.
” RLBox is a significant gain for us on numerous fronts: it protects our users from inadvertent faults as well as supply chain threats, and it lessens the need for us to scurry when such concern are exposed upstream,” Mozilla writes of how it will benefits Firefox.
What’s New in Firefox 95, Other Than That ?
The picture-in picture toggle button can now be moved to the opposite side of the video in Firefox.
On MacOS, the browser also minimises the power consumption of software decoded video, particularly in fullscreen mode. When you use Firefox to watch videos on Netflix, you’ll notice a reduction in power consumption, which is good adjustment. While Firefox 95 won’t be available until December 7, 2021, you can get it now for Mac, Windows and Linux via Mozilla’s FTP.
