The Google Chrome security team has shared that it has no qualms about imposing a slight performance penalty on future versions the web browser if this helps make it more secure.
Quoting earlier research that revealed that 70% of all security issues in Chrome concern memory safety bugs, the developers listed the various approaches it could take to improve the security of the browser.
In a joint post, the members of the Chrome security team called application security a “cat and mouse game”, before discussing the available approaches and arguing that any practical solution would come with a slight performance hit.