Browser in the Box

Found this, that might interest some people;

http://www.sirrix.com/content/pages/BitBox_en.htm

 

I still trust my tried and true method here, who knew what I've been doing for the past couple years is now marketable.

 

Virtual machines are best utilized for testing purposes, rather than for securiing web-facing applications. The considerable resource overhead required to run a vm isn't worth the tradeoff to secure a browser. Since you use Linux why not just use Chrome with a basic Apparmor profile. In fact in reality you don't even need Apparmor to browse securely in a Linux environment.

 

Well yes, there are many uses for VMs. For me there is little to no resource loss on my end. I have the computing resources to load up the Linux VM as quickly as say a Firefox or Chrome instance on my host. Yes if my computer was older and only contained one hard drive I'd agree. However keeping adobe, java, and my browsing inside a completely isolated VM has worked well for me for a long time.

 

Yeah that was a good statement like 5-10 years ago, but honestly look at the specs on systems today...

Nope sorry a VM is fine for any desktop user, for anything they want in todays world, but yes I'll admit, if you're only using it for surfing it might be a bit extreme, but it's certainly going to be secure and using those snapshots if something gets messed up is a breeze to restore the system...