Firefox developers planning for new security protections

By Ashish Mohta

Firefox developers have started planning for new strategies for securing the browser more specially against the major ones

  • Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
  • Cross-site request forgeries

According to this source

The protection would allow developers of one site to explicitly define which domains are allowed to initiate or answer cross-site requests for code, cookies and other site resources.These policies will describe which scripts in a page should be treated as valid and how web content should be permitted to initiate cross-site requests

This is a very good step in making the browser more secured in long term.

I am not able to find the original news ( If it was posted by the Mozilla people anywhere ) but if you do please tell us so we can digg into more details.

 

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Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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  • Haris, May 20, 2008:

    I hope we see these protections in the coming versions of Firefox 3. Or I guess, we’ll have to wait till Firefox 4.

  • Ashish Mohta, May 20, 2008:

    You are right. I don’t see any plans for now and this is still under plans. We might see in 4 or may be in 5.

  • ajay, May 20, 2008:

    let’s see how secure they make their browser

  • hassan, May 20, 2008:

    Well they havent confirmed yet so its just a rumour i’ll beleive it when i see it with my own eyes :) any ways thanks for the update

  • Jasmine, May 21, 2008:

    I don’t use firefox…But this improvement could be good consideration to start use firefox when the next version release.

  • Ashish Mohta, May 21, 2008:

    Which browser do you use jasmine ?

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