Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox

Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by partycoder on Saturday March 25, 2017 @08:47PM (#13958342)

Better than Edge that is fully closed source.

You can use Chromium directly if you want to.

Many important projects exist because Chromium and v8 are open source.

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Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by repples on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:15PM (#13958685)

Actually the JavaScript engine of Edge is open source.

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Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by partycoder on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:18PM (#13958696)

Chakra is open source. The rest is not.

The IE/Edge layout engine has always been a source of infamous trickery. It would be good that they finally open source it.

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Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by repples on Saturday March 25, 2017 @10:20PM (#13958700)

As Chakra is part of Edge, then Edge is not fully closed source.

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Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by satysin on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:08AM (#13960580)

Edge is closed source. You have no way of verifying the build of Chakra used is the same as the open source version. Well it might be possible to reproduce a build of Chakra to do a binary comparison but i am not aware of anyone doing it.

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Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by repples on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:21PM (#13962211)

There's nothing stopping you from compiling https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore and checking if Chakra.dll matches that which is distributed with Edge.

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Re:Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox by satysin on Sunday March 26, 2017 @03:03PM (#13962469)

AFICT you cannot build a like-for-like chakra.dll from ChakraCore due to https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore#using-chakracore

The chakra.dll that comes as part of Windows/Edge includes the additional parts not included with ChakraCore (at least that is how it reads to me).

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