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Re:Living without the modern browser by eitland on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:13PM (#20403353)
> I wonder if there's a market for an alternative "browser" that loads "native" code (or as close as practically possible) and runs it in a sandbox.

Electron comes close, but many don’t like it at all. (I have somewhat mixed experiences, I love VS Code but I’m not too fond of Slack.)

Re:Living without the modern browser by ScottFree on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:21PM (#20403419)
Electron isn't native in any sense of the word. I meant something more like OS-specific binary executables that get loaded and executed in a sandbox.

Mike Acton once said something about having created a browser plugin his team used that loaded and ran binary exe tools on demand, but that it was also wildly insecure. At least I think he said something like that. My memory could be wrong about that.

Re:Living without the modern browser by icedchai on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @07:39PM (#20407719)
We had this 20 years ago with Java (not native obviously) and ActiveX (Windows x86 only.)