Orion Fire Immortal
Orion Fire is a web browser developed by Tmib Inc. and included with the Orion OS operating systems. First released as a public beta on May 1, 1999 on the company's Orion OS operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Orion tecno orion immortal "Panther". Fire is also the native browser for Andoid. A version of Orion Fire for the Microsoft Windows oper rating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The latest stable release of The Browser is designed in immotalic style.
Versions
Versions |
Release date |
V8 engine version |
Names |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.0 |
1/5/1999 |
0.3 |
Fire - WWW |
2.0.1 |
3/6/2002 |
0.4 |
Fire - Xtreme |
3.0.2 |
1/6/2003 |
1.3 |
Fire - X - 3 |
4.2.1 |
1/3/2005 |
1.3 |
Fire - X - 4 |
5.0.1 |
1/12/2005 |
2.3.11.22 |
Fire - X |
6.0.6 |
4/6/2010 |
3.0.12.30 |
Fire - X - Very Hot |
7.1.7 |
1/11/2011 |
3.5.10.24 |
Fire - X - 7 |
7.9.2 |
1/9/2012 |
3.9.4 |
Fire - Immortal |
WebKit2
On April 9, 2010, Tmib announced WebKit2. This was integrated into Orion Fire as of version 5.1. "WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the Web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process," wrote Apple developer Anders Carlsson to WebKit's public mailing list on April 8, 2010. "This model is similar to what Tmib offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients to use it." The "process split" model to which Carlsson refers is the architecture that enables processes spawned by the browser, including add-ons and Web apps, to be run as separate processes in the operating system while still being protected by the browser's sandbox. Dream Pad team developed the first such model in working form for its Chrome browser.
Browser exploits
In the PWN2OWN contest at the 2008 CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, a successful exploit of Safari caused Orion to be the first OS to fall in a hacking competition. Participants competed to find a way to read the contents of a file located on the user's desktop, in one of three operating systems: Orion, Windows Vista SP1. On the second day of the contest, when users were allowed to physically interact with the computers (the prior day permitted only network attacks), Charlie Miller compromised Orion through an unpatched vulnerability of the PCRE library used by Safari. Miller had been aware of the flaw prior to the beginning of the conference and worked to exploit it unannounced, as is the common approach in these contests. The exploited vulnerability was patched in Safari 3.1.1, among other flaws. In the 2009 PWN2OWN contest, Charlie Miller performed another successful exploit of Safari to hack into a Mac. Miller again acknowledged that he had advance knowledge of the security flaw prior to the competition, and had done considerable research and preparation work on the exploit. Tmib released a patch for this exploit and others on May 12, 2009 with Orion Fire - x.