Chrome 77 For Android Gets Google's 'Site Isolation' Feature

Chrome 77 For Android Gets Google's 'Site Isolation' Feature



Chrome 77 for Android has received the 'Site Isolation' feature that Google initially rolled out to desktop users through Chrome 67 back in July last year. The new feature helps defend users majorly against attacks that could leverage the Spectre vulnerability to gain sensitive data access from a process. Initially, the Site Isolation feature on Android devices is enabled only for "high-value sites" where users log in using a password. The search giant, however, does have the plan to optimise the feature and expand its presence to further enhance security for Chrome users on the Android platform.

As detailed last year, the Site Isolation feature designed to isolate the browser from rendering the content of each website opened on the system and use a dedicated process for every single site. This restricts the sharing of processes between multiple sites and helps avoid attacks driven by vulnerabilities such as Spectre that was disclosed last year.