Mozilla Prism - Site-Specific Browser
The first time you hear about site-specific browsing, you raise a brow and wonder. What is this thing? And how is it different from the ... eh ... regular browsing.
Site-specific browsing (SSB in short) is the concept of using a single instance of your web browser to visit a single website. In other words, when you launch the SSB, it will connect to only one specific site - and nothing more. In a nutshell, this is what Prism is all about.
Sounds like a bad idea? Not all. Let me explain why.
Security
You may have heard about this thing called cross-site scripting (XSS). You may have also heard about session hijacking, IFrames and other scary, geeky stuff, all of which are meant to tell you one thing: your browser cannot completely isolate websites from one another.
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