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Firefox browser ported to WebAssembly, runs inside another browser

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Developers compiled the full Firefox browser, including Gecko and SpiderMonkey, to WebAssembly, rendering it inside an HTML canvas. The port uses a novel WASM-to-JS JIT for speed and WISP protocol for end-to-end encrypted TCP-over-websockets. The project cost over $25,000 in debugging tokens and is described as a fun experiment to push WebAssembly boundaries.

Meridian48 take
While technically impressive, this Firefox-in-WASM demo is more a proof-of-concept than a practical tool, given its massive resource overhead compared to lighter browser-in-browser alternatives.
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