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Flash/applets could have been isolated in a process too, right?

• nox101 2y ago
  yes but no, because they needed access to the OS for various services, all of which would have had to be isolated from the user code. Sun and Adobe woiod never have done this. Chrome did it, Safari and Firefox followed. WASM runs in that environment. Flash/applets ran outside of that environment. they did that precisely to provide services the broswer didn't back then.
  • 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
    Chrome did put a sandbox around Flash, didn't they? I thought the bigger reasons it died out was that it didn't integrate with DOM and Apple hated it