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Firefox still doesn't use process separation between page rendering and the browser chrome. The thing that renders the pages on Chrome is a subprocess per tab (
by pilif 10y ago
Firefox still doesn't use process separation between page rendering and the browser chrome. The thing that renders the pages on Chrome is a subprocess per tab (at considerable memory cost) which is also running in a sandbox.
In Firefox all tabs run in the same process and thus inherently can't be sandboxed (because it needs to write to the disk cache and save files the user downloads)
- dhimes 10y agoThanks for that. I knew about the sandbox but wasn't sure if there was something else (newer) that I missed.
- the8472 10y agoDev Edition has process separation and content process sandboxing.
- lima 10y agoNow we only have to wait 5 years until they found all the obvious sandbox escape bugs.