Microsoft's new web browser is garbage-collected

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

 From 
http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/05/11/microsoft-edge-building-a-safer-browser/ 
:

> MemGC
> 
> As these mitigations have rolled out, attackers have adapted, 
> inventing new forms of attack. Microsoft in turn has responded 
> with new memory safety defenses that mitigate the most common 
> new forms of attack, including and especially use-after-free 
> vulnerabilities.
> 
> MemGC (Memory Garbage Collector) is a memory garbage collection 
> system that seeks to defend the browser from UAF 
> (Use-after-free) vulnerabilities by taking responsibility for 
> freeing memory away from the programmer and instead automating 
> it, only freeing memory when the automation has detected that 
> there are no more references left pointing to a given block of 
> memory.

It sounds like they are using a conservative GC to avoid problems 
caused by dangling pointers.