Also, web browsers from that era were very insecure. The “You Are an Idiot” Trojan was from that era. Web browsers with the same featureset, but developed to m

Also, web browsers from that era were very insecure. The “You Are an Idiot” Trojan was from that era. Web browsers with the same featureset, but developed to modern security standards, would be nigh impregnable. Unfortunately, the market has a certain level of tolerance for holes, and that tolerance level isn’t zero, so the extra “budget” gained by sandboxing, fuzzing, ASLR, and safe C++ practices, gets invested into new features instead of left on the table.