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> AFAIK Chrome is gold standard in sandboxing...does this still hold true? Firefox offers similar sandboxing; see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox htt
by mintplant 9y ago
> AFAIK Chrome is gold standard in sandboxing...does this still hold true?
Firefox offers similar sandboxing; see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox
Firefox's JavaScript engine also implements more in-depth protections than V8, such as W^X in the JIT and compartments+wrappers to provide revokable access control and separation between code from different origins. There's a lot more to security than ensuring code execution can't break out of the browser.