The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by caspper69 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @03:34AM (#22062659)

I don't really think this is a problem anymore. It's more that no desktop OS provides secure native execution facilities a la iOS. The web browser was the best solution for sandboxing web applications in 1995-200x, but now CPUs have multiple cores, virtualization extensions, systems with multiple gigabytes of ram, etc.

There are better ways to sandbox applications in 2020.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by Wowfunhappy on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:40AM (#22065497)

As an interesting counterpoint, since iOS sideloading became semi-possible around 2014, there have been many more app-based Jailbreaks than Safari-based Jailbreaks.

This is true despite the fact that on iOS, sideloading custom apps without a developer account is extraordinarily inconvenient.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by caspper69 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:54AM (#22105562)

I'm so sorry to respond so late; I would just like to point out "the cloud," and the fact that there have been very few hypervisor escapes. Just because there are more app-based Jailbreaks on iOS has little to do with what is technically possible given the hardware (recent Intel missteps notwithstanding).

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