Browsers & Accounts · Course 1
How Browsers Keep You Safe
The walls, warnings and permission checks inside your browser.
- 1Every Site in Its Own Box11 min · How sandboxes and site isolation keep one bad page away from the rest.
- 2Browser Updates and Restarts10 min · Why a downloaded fix does nothing until the browser restarts.
- 3Safe Browsing Warnings11 min · What the red warning pages mean, and the protection levels behind them.
- 4Permissions Websites Ask For11 min · Location, camera, mic, notifications and clipboard: when to say yes.
- 5Challenge: The Frozen Tab and the Pushy Site12 min · Help a neighbor with a stuck laptop and a flood of pop-up messages.
Hands-on
Do it on the practice computer
Lessons have labs you can try in your browser, plus questions that earn points toward the Sandbox Scout badge.
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