Browser sandboxingīecause browsers are so prolific and always on, they’re worthy of special attention. Sandboxing helps reduce the impact any individual program or app will have on your system In effect, it keeps the sand in the sandbox, keeping that sand from getting all over your (digital) house. Programs can behave badly and crash, or cause other programs to crash they can have a reliance on some other application on the computer that conflicts with the needs of other programs and, increasingly, programs are malicious and try to access out-of-bounds areas to do bad things. This is exactly the type of behavior we’ve come to demand from our computers, phones, tablets, and watches over the years, but these capabilities can cause undesirable side effects. By allowing programs to share resources, the computer can seemingly multi-task and appear to be doing a lot of things at once. And when malware is involved, it could become disastrous.īasic computer design facilitates this resource sharing. All of that interaction can “dirty” your system, causing conflicts. And in Microsoft Windows, this holds true for many programs and apps, which will write and interact with multiple parts of your operating system, including your static storage, system memory, and CPU. As anyone who’s ever been to a beach will know, sand gets everywhere. This is accomplished with sandboxing tools, which in concept work similarly a real sandbox.
Sandboxing is the act of sectioning off a program on your hard drive so that its exposure to the rest of your apps and critical systems is minimized or eliminated.
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