Google keeps working to improve user security, the Internet giant has announced that Chrome is now offering users a new feature to protect their users from Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.
Chrome makes major changes to its internal architecture to protect users from the Spectre vulnerability.
Chrome protects you from spectre using more RAM
Chrome has added a new security feature called “Site Isolation”, which is enabled by default for Mac, Linux, Windows, and ChromeOS installations. This feature has been available since the release of Chrome 63 since then the feature has been perfected by fixing most of the bugs, so the time has come for it to be enabled by default.
This site isolation feature comes with major changes to Chrome’s internal architecture, limiting each rendering process to a single website, limiting the potential for Spectre-based attacks. Additional features such as Cross-Origins Read Blocking are also enabled to further limit Spectre attacks.
The drawback of this is the creation of a larger number of smaller processes, which increases the memory consumption of Chrome by about 10-13. This change will not have much impact on most users, although the users of the humblest computers will be the most affected. Google is currently working to enable site isolation for Android users, although there is no ETA for this update.
Google continues to work to optimize this new feature as much as possible, which should allow for a reduction in the extra RAM consumption associated with this new feature.
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