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Security? Wasn't it reported that rendering performance was far more important. 28 November 2011 13:43
How does Opera compare.
Do these speed enhancements which incidentally me and my businesses
care very little for require JIT. I've just removed chromium and put
firefox in a sandbox on our machines for flash only and promoted an
unfortunately closed source opera as the main browser as it is the
only one which works with PAX mprotect without --disable -jit at
source for firefox the sandbox on chromium makes it more difficult,
suid still not removed either. (in fact opera works with all of PAX).
You may argue mprotect breaks standards but standards break
grsecurity as it opens avenues to bypass it and many apps work just
fine and most of the others are said to be trivial to fix. Aren't
there enough monthly javascript exploits already?
Flash on the otherhand doesn't work at all with PAX, maybe that
explains to some degree it's security record. I sure hope html5
doesn't inherit a big chunk of this. It's said that programmable
computers can't be secured which isn't really true. I certainly hate
seeing this idea of programmable at runtime, adobe air as a seperate
app is one thing but forcing on users via a browser is another, it's
becoming akin to windows admin rights, a real pain to avoid. And yes
I know about the firefox disable jit options which are no real
prevention unless applied at source, allowing PAX mprotect
enforcement.
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