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Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

#131
This is amazing -- but there is something wrong with (maybe) the WebGL or color rendering. If you go to https://pskreporter.info/pskmap then the ocean should be blue (and it is blue in a native firefox). However it is a shocking shade of pink in the wasmified version.

Still, it is amazing that it works at all!

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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post #95

Earlier 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?

Imagine the loss to Google if every Firefox user’s default search engine wasn’t Google…

Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

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> 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.

+1 from me, as I'm the author of the wasm32 JIT backend. I guess the direction is wrong, it should be JS JIT -> WASM, right? or maybe I don't understand the scheme.
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