Yeah, that's why it's better than having a HTTP server listening on localhost. And why listening on localhost is often not a good idea. But UNIX sockets are no

Yeah, that's why it's better than having a HTTP server listening on localhost. And why listening on localhost is often not a good idea. But UNIX sockets are not available on all platforms, which defeats a bit the general idea of a browser. Windows got UNIX socket support a while ago, but I don't know how well it works.