Browser evolution-the operating system will eventually disappear

In Microsoft's gazelle research report, we can find that the Security Theory of the group is completely different from that of other browsers, the solution they proposed makes it easier for people to come up with the idea that gazelle is actually more like an operating system. However, the performance of gazelle is not satisfactory in terms of resource usage and running speed.

Browser Evolution

Before talking about the operating system, let's talk about the Internet webpage. In the 1990s s, such as the 1997 s, web pages on the Internet were just a pile of static and fragmented information.

With the development of Web 2.0, countless Web applications can now integrate information of various resources. Although users can enjoy convenient and rich aggregated content, users must bear the risk of receiving information and services from untrusted websites.

The strange thing is that Microsoft calls it "the security problem to be solved in the transition from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 ". The solution proposed by Microsoft is to design a multi-thread architecture browser similar to the operating system. This is exactly the same as a development project that Microsoft publicly discussed-MashupOS.

Microsoft's move will fundamentally change the future of browsers, and the future of browser performance will become more powerful. With the establishment of standards for Web applications such as Google Docs, we have to ask: Since browsers can meet all our needs, why do we still need an operating system?

Concept Innovation

In the development of the gazelle browser, Microsoft has changed the design concept of traditional browsers. browsers and web pages are an inseparable whole.) in turn, the browser process is divided by the content of the source website, this is quite similar to Google Chrome's tag bar.

For example, a webpage may contain text from one URL, streaming media from another website, and advertisements from other websites. This web page is divided into three independent processes, which makes each part of the content more stable and safer. And most importantly, an application crash does not affect the running of other programs.

In fact, this security solution is exactly the same as the operating system. It provides cross-Origin Protection for browsers and limits various attacks to a certain area to prevent the spread of threats. At the same time, it will not disrupt the communication between various parts, and the existing web applications will not change as a result, and its backward compatibility will remain unchanged.

According to Microsoft's gazelle Research Report, the execution and performance evaluation results of the gazelle prototype show that the design concept of the gazelle is practical and will enable the browser to Multi-principal operating system) operating system development.

When to become a reality?

However, the gazelle browser is only a theoretical study by Microsoft. Maybe we will never see the gazelle. In addition, the independent thread design will also lead to a decrease in the speed of the browser, which is unacceptable in any case.

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