Great, now I can finally make an Electron.js application with code made for Firefox!
Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
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Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#82I've been waiting for this to happen. The websites that don't want you to block ads will serve you an obfuscated "inner browser" that will render their site. All your ad blockers, etc, are rendered moot. Once accessibility is solved this is absolutely going to be a thing on major websites.
Great, looking forward to needing 16GB RAM to watch youtube :(
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#83Yo dog, I heard you like browsers, so I put a browser in your browser.
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#84Browser sandboxing is now fully solved.
In mean... It kinda feels like this is legitimately true? An attacker trying to do anything on a user's machine through this would have to find a Firefox vulnerability and a vulnerability in the wasm runtime, which is such a high bar that I would actually feel remarkably safe running this thing. The only question is how performance works and whether there are any pain points using as a daily driver, but those feel li…
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 of your cookies as multiprocess isolation is disabled here
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#85It's kind of ironic how this doesn't work in Firefox.
It worked for me but I had to enable something in about:config
javascript.options.wasm_js_promise_integration
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#86Impressive and surprisingly performant, but what's the use-case?
If anything, this is an ad for WASM!
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#87Loosely related to porting the Firefox engine in unusual places: here is a project that ports Firefox's Gecko rendering engine to iOS as a sideloadable app (normally Apple only allows its own WebKit rendering engine in iOS apps): https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browser
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#88I've been waiting for this to happen. The websites that don't want you to block ads will serve you an obfuscated "inner browser" that will render their site. All your ad blockers, etc, are rendered moot. Once accessibility is solved this is absolutely going to be a thing on major websites.
Assumes bad actors care about accessibility in the first place
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#89>This port cost over 25k in opus/fable tokens for debugging and JIT research > This was just a fun experiment to push the boundaries of WebAssembly I'm a huge fan of the project, but I have to ask. If spending $25k is a "fun experiment", where exactly is your threshold for serious work?
Was it really $25k, or was it done though subscriptions with a reported cost of $25k? I'm on the openai $100 sub and frequently my codexbar will show $250 usage in a day. I think it probably doesn't have access to the cached token share too, which probably inflates that a lot.
The latter
Re: Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
#90Oh 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.
Yo dawg I heard you like Firefox.