Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model

Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model by jacob019 on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:52PM (#17287908)

Some of us love Firefox and do not want webkit hegemony, even if it is open source.

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Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model by digi_owl on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:19PM (#17288684)

IF that was true, then perhaps more effort should be directed towards making Gecko a drop in engine?

The big "benefit" of webkit is that it is a engine without the whole "browser" thing tagging along.

But the last time i poked at getting gecko to stand on its own, albeit some time ago, it involved grabbing Firefox and giving it some configure (or whatever that python thing that is masking as configure that Mozilla is using these days) options to have it barf out only Gecko.

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Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model by genghizkhan on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @03:30AM (#17291374)

I think they're working on servo for that. It'll be able to be dropped in place of Chromium: it'll support the same API.

Or so I remember.

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Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model by MBCook on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:02PM (#17288568)

It’s not even WebKit anymore.

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