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I'm obviously reminded of http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-unite-reinvents-the-web http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/

I'm obviously reminded of http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-unite-reinvents-the-web http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-un.... Is Mozilla reinventing the web again, too? Will this following the footsteps of Persona, and all those other Mozilla experiments. I would prefer less focus on such a public lab space where money is thrown, and greater focus on reality. Sorry for the negative view but Mozilla appears to have the same lack of focus problems as many other companies. Edits: speling correctoins

kannanvijayan 10y ago
Hi there, I work on the FlyWeb team, and initiated the project within Mozilla. Most of Mozilla's dev resources right now are being targeted towards core development: the e10s process isolation work, the quantum graphics and rendering speedup work, general stability and crash rate work, asm.js and webasm work, etc. etc. The vast, vast majority of resources are being allocated to those core concenrs, and that's a direction I personally agree with. FlyWeb is a very low-overhead experimental project with an eye to the long term. There are two people on the team, me and Justin D'Arcangelo. I've said this before on HN, but there are no guarantees. I personally want this project to succeed, but that success depends on a lot of factors. Implementation work, security work, adoption, interest, market viability and other factors. We're working hard to make a viable path to success for the project. Cheers.
- hackerfromthefu 10y ago
  Hi, the first things I thought of here is pages you are browsing snooping on or hacking other browser pages, e.g. ad payloads across multiple open pages communicating in realtime in their tracking of you. Could that be a major change in the abstraction of independence/encapsulation of web pages, or in other words a break against user protections in the contract of using a web browser instead of applications. So, please keep security and privacy as first order design considerations with this :)

kannanvijayan 10y ago

Hi there, I work on the FlyWeb team, and initiated the project within Mozilla. Most of Mozilla's dev resources right now are being targeted towards core development: the e10s process isolation work, the quantum graphics and rendering speedup work, general stability and crash rate work, asm.js and webasm work, etc. etc. The vast, vast majority of resources are being allocated to those core concenrs, and that's a direction I personally agree with. FlyWeb is a very low-overhead experimental project with an eye to the long term. There are two people on the team, me and Justin D'Arcangelo. I've said this before on HN, but there are no guarantees. I personally want this project to succeed, but that success depends on a lot of factors. Implementation work, security work, adoption, interest, market viability and other factors. We're working hard to make a viable path to success for the project. Cheers.

hackerfromthefu 10y ago
Hi, the first things I thought of here is pages you are browsing snooping on or hacking other browser pages, e.g. ad payloads across multiple open pages communicating in realtime in their tracking of you. Could that be a major change in the abstraction of independence/encapsulation of web pages, or in other words a break against user protections in the contract of using a web browser instead of applications. So, please keep security and privacy as first order design considerations with this :)