Web browser architecture proposal with local agent

The Web browser has become the centerfold application to the Internet. It has evolved from being an application for rendering static Web pages to a host of a variety of applications. The growing requirements for a Web browser have lead to code additions, vendor specific add-ons but not much change in its base design. Hence in this paper we are proposing new Web browser architecture based on local computing which will ensure improvement in quality of service (QOS). This can be achieved by adding a generic extensible local agent on client end which will interact with Web browser. This new local agent will support some generic functionality like compression. Additionally this agent can also have an additional security layer specifically designed for Add-ons, authentication, data upload and download. By separating out specific security features from the Web browser to a separate component will help to reduce the code size of a Web browser. Security patch-ups for newly found vulnerabilities related to Web-browser can be made available easily without the reinstallation of complete Web browser. In case of multimedia data upload, compression will ensure tremendous reduction in data transfer over network. In case of image uploads using compression; our POC proves the best case reduction in data transfer by 80 times and average case data transfer reduction by 12 times.