As far back as two years ago, a milenium in technological chronology, technology gurus touted the benefits of sandbox security in Internet or web browsers. At that time, most were talking about a beta browser being tested by Google, called Chrome. Chrome, now in permanent release, is one of the safest out there.

Here's why Chrome, and now maybe Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) version 8, may be safer choices for Internet browsing.

How Browser Tabs Affect a Secure Internet Experience

Most of today's browsers use tabs, or allow users to choose to use tabs when browsing the web. A tab is simply a separate sub-window the user opens for each site she visits. The sub-window is accessed via an object at the top of the browser. The object resembles the tab at the top of a paper file folder, hence the name, tab.

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