Still, it is amazing that it works at all!
Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
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Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
In 2024, "search royalties" brought in approximately $585 million for Mozilla, largely from Google. It's not hard to see why they tread very lightly around ad blocking. It's actually impressive that ublock remains easy and painless to install as an extension.
Wouldn't the whole point of Google propping up competition browsers to avoid antitrust be completely undermined if Google was influencing the development of said browsers?
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#133> There is a novel WASM->JS JIT for experimental site speedup I would love to see the details for this. SpiderMonkey had an attempted wasm32 JIT backend, but it was never finished. edit: Apparently it also has some sort of WebAssembly interpreter backend too, which SpiderMonkey doesn't have.