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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by gcp on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:32PM (#15705595)
One major weakness of Firefox, relative to Chrome and Edge, is its use of sandboxing and process isolation to limit the impact that security flaws can have. Next year Mozilla will be working to improve these areas.

Firefox has been shipping with a sandbox for a while, let alone e10s. Is that an old post?

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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by majewsky on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:42PM (#15705742)
It is not a binary choice; there are sandboxes and then there are sandboxes. For example, a VM is a stricter sandbox than a container is a stricter sandbox than a chroot is better than nothing.
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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by gcp on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:46PM (#15705775)
For sure. But he doesn't go into any details where he think the advantage would lie, which I think conflicts with calling it a "major weakness".
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