Now the Google’s Chrome browser has been taken a step to keep all websites from stealing the sensitive data, but the change means that the Chrome will need more memory.

In 2008, since Google first released the Google Chrome, it’s a web browser which has divided work among the multiple computing processes. And the approach will help in keeping the one tab’s work from interfering with what is happening in another one. And the Google has now been easily testing a stricter distinction of the sort of separating only to protect against the Spectre; it is a new type of attack which Google and some other researchers revealed in January.

Recently, Charlie Reis, Chrome team member said in a blog post that the Google would release new security feature, which is called as site Isolation, to almost a limited number of the Chrome users which starting with the Chrome 67 released in May. Now it is facilitated for approximately 99 percent of users on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.

However, the move shows that how complicated Spectre and also some related Meltdown attacks are to the thwart. Some of the tech companies make some operating systems, processors, and also browsers which are all scrambled to block the attackers only by using the vulnerabilities for snatching the sensitive data like encryption keys or password. And now the problem is severe enough to have increased in the US Congress, where the senators griped that they had not heard about Spectre sooner.

Also shows the latest way that is Spectre which took some advantage of a processor feature and also increased the chip speeds is now dogging the performance of the computer. The Intel’s initial low-level Spectre will fix the taxed computer speeds discreetly, and the Chrome is also using some more memory is one of another drag.

But the site isolation will help the future versions of Chrome with some more problems besides the Spectre.

Justin Schuh, Chrome’s lead security leader, twitted that best part is now coming in a few releases when the site isolation provides general mitigation against two classes of the computer attacks, remote code execution and also universal cross-site scripting in a key part of the Chrome.

Uses Some More Memory

However, the Google’s site isolation feature is a major change to the Google Chrome. It will affect a core part of the web browser which is called the renderer which will turn the website programming code into the actual pixels on your phone or the laptop screen. With the site isolation, the Chrome splits the renderers into some separate computing processes which are more often to the wall of data better.

Unfortunately, it means that the Chrome needs some more memory. Google said in a project document that the increase is almost 10 to 13 percent for people with lots of the tabs open. Though, the good news is that the site isolation allows the Google relax from the earlier restrictions on monitoring some precise timing of the browser actions which had adopted to make the Spectre attacks harder.

Reis said in the blog post that our team would continue to work hard only to optimize this behavior to keep the Chrome both secure and fast. And it is also working to bring the site isolation to the Chrome for Android.

A Ten Year Project: Site isolation

Justin Schuh, Chrome security leader, tweeted that Reis has been working on the site isolation technology for a decade and starting with his Ph.D. research, and the team of Chrome began about six years ago.

A previous Chrome security team member, Eric Lawrence,  now works with the Microsoft’s rival Edge browser which called the move an enormously inspiring achievement.

He tweeted that the Google has spent many engineer-years in a feature that originally seemed hopelessly out of whack from the cost/benefit POV [point of view]. And when the Spectre arrived, then the site isolation unexpectedly became an essential defense against a class of attack.