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coolelectronics

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    Comment #48929664

    Unless you're running every origin in a different instance, I wouldn't use this as a daily driver, since a site would only need to find a renderer vuln to be able to read the rest …

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    Comment #48928759

    It is required in order to yield the event loop and force an implicit sync on OffscreenCanvas. There is technically a slower workaround for this but JSPI is coming soon anyway to f…

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    Comment #48927724

    $25k of tokens, closer to 30 billion I believe. It only took a few days to actually get the engine up, the hard parts where most of the effort was spent was squeezing out performan…

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    Comment #48927591

    We also plan on adding extension support to https://github.com/HeyPuter/browser.js soon, which should hopefully cover use cases like that as well without the full overhead

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    Comment #48927491

    Oh and for anyone asking, you can run firefox-wasm inside firefox-wasm inside firefox! I only got this to load once though since it gets pretty unstable at that level.

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    Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

    This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in WebAssembly. Here are a few thin…

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    Comment #46935932

    In the past we had "friends" for this

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    Comment #45734580

    It took me less than a minute on the site to run into factually wrong information, broken citations, etc. Cannot imagine rotting my brain with knowingly bad information for over 2 …

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    Comment #45509496

    Your example proxies the console object, the intended way in this case is to make a proxy from the log function itself and use the apply hook toString will be called on the Proxy a…

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    Comment #45507181

    could be very useful for my work, nice to see

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    Comment #45506931

    I've been basically doing this for years via a private mastodon instance. Very nice to see!

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    Comment #44122821

    My bad! Switched over to the github pages fallback. Cloudflare pages isn't suitable because the wasm files (100mb+) exceed the 25mb limit. (i could bypass this with service worker …

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    Comment #40603316

    i do wish! firefox has web features missing that i need on a daily basis, and their developer team seems wholly uninterested on working on them at all

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    Comment #40603138

    i would always tell them to install firefox. this is mostly for developers and tech oriented people who need to keep chrome around

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    Comment #39276678

    why? firefox performance will always be worse than blink, if only because of spidermonkey the last thing people want from electron is a worse version of it hogging more resources

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    Comment #38676346

    it's satire

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    Comment #38474478

    really fucking cool! good job

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    Comment #37600704

    the ability to make "worthless trash games" is the only reason that the indie industry can exist at all. there are huge communities around sharing small lower-effort projects (whic…

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