Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Security Spider Sense Goes Bonkers

I came across a blog entry for google today at http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/long-lived-new-windows.html which is below.  Now, I have not investigated, but after reading it - especially the last paragraph - my security spider sense went bonkers.  Did it have this effect on anyone else?

Long lived new windows
Thursday, June 10, 2010 | 4:46 PM

Posted by Michael Davidson, Software Engineer

I recently posted about Gmail’s fast new windows and explained that the only downside of them was that they closed when the main Gmail window closed. Today, we’re changing that. If you’re using the latest version of Google Chrome, you can now continue to work in popped out windows after you close your main window (especially handy for those of us who always like to keep an eye on our tasks).

For the technically curious among you, our friends on the Chrome team made it possible to transfer the code that runs Gmail from one window to another as the window closes. When the window that hosts the code fires an unload event, we move the iframe with the code to a surviving window. Everything continues to run, including timers and outstanding requests.