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Re:Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (... by maxerickson on Sunday February 08, 2015 @04:50PM (#9018727)
I think native code sand boxing got to browsers before docker:

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

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Re:Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (... by Udo on Sunday February 08, 2015 @04:51PM (#9018734)
That's Chrome, does Firefox have anything like this? And if it does, why do we need an extra sandbox format for the DRM stuff again?
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Re:Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (... by maxerickson on Sunday February 08, 2015 @05:00PM (#9018761)
There was a big kertuffle a few years back where Mozilla made it clear they weren't going to support anything like native client (and they then put a bunch of resources into asm.js).

I don't know if that has changed or not, I don't pay close attention. I only mentioned it because of the "Docker for the client" line, that it already exists is a pretty emphatic yes.

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Re:Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (... by Udo on Sunday February 08, 2015 @05:05PM (#9018774)
> I only mentioned it because of the "Docker for the client" line,

You're right. I corrected the original comment to make it clearer I'm talking about Firefox. The point was to call out the sandbox argument a bit, since I'm not so sure it's actually safe to run malware in it.

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