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Re:Save Firefox by icebraining on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:01PM (#11680082)
closed source DRM module that can do arbitrary things on the host platform

I don't know about other browsers, but at least Firefox is sandboxing EME modules so that they can only do a few approved things (security bugs aside, of course).

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Re:Save Firefox by incompatible on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @09:52PM (#11680808)
Perhaps the new browsers can implement the Firfox interfaces and install the same proprietary modules if they are so inclined.
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Re:Save Firefox by slrz on Thursday May 12, 2016 @08:03PM (#11687701)
Back then, Mozilla's plan was for the CDM to inspect the running Firefox and deny playback if it detects tampering of the relevant browser parts.

How the hell that is supposed to work if the CDM is oh-so-sandboxed is left as an exercise for the reader.

Did anyone actually check that own builds of vanilla Firefox sources are able to use the Adobe CDM? Wouldn't surprise me at all if it only worked with the official Mozilla-signed Windows binaries (yep, at least the Mozilla flavour of the "portable" and "interoperable" EME is provided for Windows and Windows only).

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Re:Save Firefox by TheDong on Thursday May 12, 2016 @03:18AM (#11681885)
Not legally because of the DMCA anti circumvention clauses, as the post points out.

Reverse engineering or borrowing firefox's code might be technically possible, but that doesn't make it legal.

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