Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model
by TheDong on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:54PM
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It would still be terrible for the web, as a standard, to have less diversity. Chrome+chromium barely count as diversity since the standard-related code (rendering, js engine, layout, etc) is identical.
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Re:Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model
by sli on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:27PM
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That, and Chrome tends to make some hardline, opinionated changes that aren't reciprocated by other browsers. "It works in Edge and Firefox, but it's broken in Chrome" is a a fairly common thing to hear where I work.
This includes things like weird rendering bugs, and extra "Chrome-only" features.
Amusingly, as of last week, Chrome Experiments worked fine in Edge and Firefox, but was broken in Chrome. Because of Chrome's opinionated, built in whitelisting for media content forgot to include the Chrome Experiments domain name.
Yikes. It's starting to sound a lot like old IE.