comex's statement is correct. Chrome/Chromium was designed from the ground up for fine-grained sandboxing of renderers and extensions; Firefox's single-process

comex's statement is correct. Chrome/Chromium was designed from the ground up for fine-grained sandboxing of renderers and extensions; Firefox's single-process design currently prevents it from implementing any similar layered defense. Mozilla acknowledges as much with the mission statement of their Electrolysis project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis Hopefully Firefox's situation will improve in the near future—at the very least, we'll all benefit if Chrome has a viable competitor. But in the meantime Firefox absolutely is behind Chrome in the security department.