Gazelle (Webbrowser)

Gazelle is an experimental web browser, which was announced by Microsoft in 2009. The main difference to other browsers is that all the features of an operating system are incorporated into the browser. This includes a secure kernel, which was modeled after the principles of a kernel. Different websites are running similar way to an operating system as different processes in order to prevent the execution of malicious code on other websites. Also, browser plug -ins are managed as processes. The security features increase the loading time of web pages.

After the announcement of Google Chrome 2009 Gazelle was considered as a possible alternative. Unlike Google Chrome the approach Gazelle is not that the job of the operating system that the principles of an operating system be installed in the browser to make it more efficient and safe transition to the browser, but.