iWarren Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Microsoft allows developers to utilize a "Web Control" container allows you to browse within an application. I was curious, if EIS also extends into this custom web container? If so, are there any particular versions it is meant to support? Although, now that I think about it, EIS probably just filters websites, and doesn't have much interaction with the internal workings of the browser controls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted July 28, 2016 Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 We don't use a browser extension. Our Surf Protection works by monitoring DNS requests, and blocking any requests to get the IP addresses of websites in our Host Rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quirky Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 I think it's a great thing for security software to *not* use browser extensions because: a) You add unnecessary bloat to the browser, with a good chance of slowing it down. b) You have to follow the browser's development, its idiosyncrasies, incompatibilities and all sorts of unnecessary problems. c) Possibly the most important point: since you cannot create extensions for all browsers out there, you will be forced to limit user choice and only be compatible with a few, mainstream browsers (which are almost never the best choice, especially privacy-wise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted August 2, 2016 Report Share Posted August 2, 2016 c) Possibly the most important point: since you cannot create extensions for all browsers out there, you will be forced to limit user choice and only be compatible with a few, mainstream browsers (which are almost never the best choice, especially privacy-wise). That's probably the biggest reason why we don't have browser extensions. We've tried things like Outlook add-ins in the past, and they didn't work out very well. Trying to do that for multiple browsers (which is at least 4 right now), and make them useful and while keeping them from somehow breaking the browser, keeping them updated so they work when new browser versions are released, etc. is a lot more challenging than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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