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Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by coolelectronics »

degamad wrote: post #10

I'm so glad this exists, I've been considering doing something like this for a few months. I recently got a TV based on VIDAA os, a locked-down linux-based OS where everything is rendered from Web pages. It has a built-in browser that doesn't support ad-blocking (I suspect VIDAA is profiting from showing ads on the TV), and you can't install new apps unless they're Web pages. This would hopefully allow one to run Fir…

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

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by rlmineing_dead »

rlmineing_dead wrote: post #9
som wrote: post #7

... doesn't support Firefox mobile apparently :D

Does firefox mobile (Android, since firefox mobile iOS is a WebKit wrapper) support about:config settings? if so you can enable wasm_js_promise_integration in about:config and have it working likely. I will test this on my Pixel 10 pro

hi reporting back, yes stock firefox mobile wont work but the BETA version will because it just added the WASM feature needed (firefox 153 adds it but regular mobile firefox lacks about:config support it seems)

and by "will work" I mean will render the first frame and then freeze

YMMV

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by sangeeth96 »

edit: I misunderstood, that's $25k not 25k tokens :/ time to log off.

this is so rad! 25k tokens is a lot less than i thought this'd take -- what were the difficult bits in the porting process? also, was firefox preferred because parts of it are already in rust?

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by ohonbob »

Since coolelectronics posted his firefox wasm here ill post my sideproject (we worked on these around the same time), Webkit In WebAssembly (And actually modern and usable! Unlike the older trevorlinton/webkit.js project)

https://github.com/theogbob/WebkitWasm

Not as polished as the firefox port but is a fully working port of webkit ported with fable, opus and some glm 5.2.

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by coolelectronics »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #16

edit: I misunderstood, that's $25k not 25k tokens :/ time to log off. this is so rad! 25k tokens is a lot less than i thought this'd take -- what were the difficult bits in the porting process? also, was firefox preferred because parts of it are already in rust?

$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 performance and increasing stability, as well as attempting the JIT.

Firefox was chosen because its single-process support was in a better place than chromium/blink. WebKit is also possible, it was done by a friend of mine earlier https://github.com/theogbob/WebkitWasm

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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Post by sangeeth96 »

coolelectronics wrote: post #18
sangeeth96 wrote: post #16

edit: I misunderstood, that's $25k not 25k tokens :/ time to log off. this is so rad! 25k tokens is a lot less than i thought this'd take -- what were the difficult bits in the porting process? also, was firefox preferred because parts of it are already in rust?

$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 performance and increasing stability, as well as attempting the JIT. Firefox was chosen because its single-process support was in a better place than chromium/blink. WebKit is also possible, it was done by a friend of mine earlier https://github.com…

ah, i misunderstood. that seemed way too low in terms of actual tokens lol. i'll log off now. interesting details and didn't know about WebkitWasm. hope to read more soon.
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