Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
by Tloewald on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @01:42PM
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Fair point. Any argument taken to extremes is probably a bad thing.
In general, I'd say replacing things with emulations of things is not a good way to get better reliability, performance, or security -- now you have bugs in the original thing and the emulation of the thing to consider.
In this case, the emulation lives within a restricted runtime environment and the real thing doesn't. But that's a performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility hit in exchange for "security", and those tend to fail simply because most people like their performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility.
In general, I'd say replacing things with emulations of things is not a good way to get better reliability, performance, or security -- now you have bugs in the original thing and the emulation of the thing to consider.
In this case, the emulation lives within a restricted runtime environment and the real thing doesn't. But that's a performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility hit in exchange for "security", and those tend to fail simply because most people like their performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility.