The browser will be safer in the future

Representatives of the four most popular web browser developers in the world now meet and reach agreement on making some changes in the company's products to make web surfing safe. and more reliable.

The main objective of the meeting between developers of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Konqueror in Toronto on November 17 is to discuss measures to combat phishing and enhance the security of products. in the next 8 months.

Among the changes that will be made on the browser versions achieved in this meeting is the plan to create a way to notify users whether they are browsing a trusted website. and some changes to the pop-up window.

Browser developers eager to see their products are able to change the address bar to green each time a user browses a highly reliable site similar to the way Firefox uses it. now - the address bar will turn yellow and display a lock icon if users visit a website that uses secure security protocols like HTTPS. If users visit a phishing site or any phishing site, the browser will change the address bar to red - similar to how it will be used in Internet Explorer. 7.

To accomplish this task, the developers will have to create another electronic authentication method - this method is now in the process of discussion. Electronic certification can be interpreted as an electronic identity card for each website for the purpose of realizing whose website it is? Is it reliable? At this meeting, browser developers have been agreed to create a more secure electronic certificate. Meanwhile, the electronic authentication mechanism today seems to be unable to guarantee the safety of users because these types of authentication can be achieved by 'fake' methods.

On the pop-up window issue, at this meeting the browser developers agreed that in the future these windows will not have an address bar or status bar making it hard for them to be wrong operating system notification boxes avoid confusion for users.

In general, the meeting has achieved certain successes. However all new only on conceptual text ideas. As for the problem, the users still have to wait.