Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model

Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model by mtgx on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:51PM (#17287897)

Yes, I think rewriting Firefox core components in Rust should give Firefox an edge in some areas, but I still think Mozilla made was wrong to go with its "hybrid" approach for its multi-process architecture.

Perhaps it's a win in the short-term, a win that maybe Firefox desperately needed to catch-up in performance, but they need to slowly transition away from that to a more secure model, as they start fixing other performance issues and fine-tune the browser more.

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Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model by sp332 on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:07PM (#17289054)

I don't know why you're getting downvoted since that's literally their roadmap. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432593 In addition to separating sites, they're breaking services out into their own processes, like moving all network access to a separate process https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322426

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