Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by EvanAnderson on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @08:41PM (#48929112)

I've been waiting for this to happen.

The websites that don't want you to block ads will serve you an obfuscated "inner browser" that will render their site. All your ad blockers, etc, are rendered moot.

Once accessibility is solved this is absolutely going to be a thing on major websites.

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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by rlmineing_dead on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:30PM (#48929729)

Assumes bad actors care about accessibility in the first place

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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by compass_copium on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:58PM (#48929550)

Great, looking forward to needing 16GB RAM to watch youtube :(

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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by lukan on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:10AM (#48932095)

If ublock origin guards the connections above, ads still won't load.

(Except embedded ads, that also show now)

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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by EvanAnderson on Thursday July 16, 2026 @06:52AM (#48932809)

The future product will tunnel all the connections from the inner browser over an opaque pipe (like WebSockets) with the encryption handled by the inner browser (and using cert. pinning).

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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by rlmineing_dead on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:03PM (#48936383)

This is already possible (actually because of a related project, https://github.com/ading2210/libcurl.js/ ) which compiles... I think WolfSSL or mbedTLS and libcurl to the wasm and then uses the same TCP proxy protocol we're using here (wisp) to tunnel HTTPS over a websocket connection securely and opaquely.

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