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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by lxe on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:05PM (#48929262)
It's kind of ironic how this doesn't work in Firefox.
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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by pmarreck on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:26PM (#48929703)
It worked for me but I had to enable something in about:config

javascript.options.wasm_js_promise_integration

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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by jagged-chisel on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:23PM (#48929360)
On what platform? Works here.

    macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 (25F84)
    Firefox 152.0.5 (aarch64)
EDIT: Updated, still works on Firefox 152.0.6 (aarch64)
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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by koolala on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @09:37PM (#48929432)
Worked in my Firefox on Steam Deck. I was amazed it could run YouTube.
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Re:Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly by rlmineing_dead on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:16PM (#48936563)
So funny story, supporting web codecs may have been a bad idea because it led to people using more traffic per session than we assumed at first. We had to add more servers mid HN post

We had completely saturated NICs on like the two original servers

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