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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by Ygg2 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @10:58AM (#10129784)
> despite all the security benefits of Chrome compared to Firefox right now

I'm wondering, what kind of security benefits you had in mind?

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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by slasaus on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:10AM (#10129862)
I guess mostly sandboxing? e10s is coming to Firefox, but per tab isolation might take a while (first step will be 1 process for the UI, 1 process for all tabs).
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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by bbatha on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:12PM (#10130273)
The isolation delays are mostly for political reasons rather than technical ones. Per tab isolation will necessarily kill off most of the legacy addon apis (XPCOM and XUL) and make firefox addons more restricted like chrome ones.
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