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Re:What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:55PM (#22958057)

I've briefly professionally interacted with James and he's the real deal. Super smart.

Re:What a one line change did to the Chrome sandbox on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:47PM (#22957956)

I believe some chromium sandbox logic came from GreenBorder (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenBorder) but I don't know the timeline of that or how GreenBorder sandboxing was implemented.

Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from Netscape ... on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:33AM (#22709790)

Lots of Microsoft Edge (pre chromium) code that stretched back to at least IE4 (along with comments with TODOs for long departed employees)

The style around naming, spacing, etc was very different, and not always cleaned up, so it was easy to tell what was old.