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bicepjai 3 hours ago

So basically Firefox is not affected ?

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hdgvhicv 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The listed browsers are basically skins on top of the same chromium base.

It’s why Firefox and Safari as so important despite HN’a wish they’d go away.

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autoexec an hour ago | parent | next [-]

HN doesn't want firefox to go away. HN wants firefox to be better, more privacy/security focused, and to stop trying to copy chrome out of the misguided hope that being a poor imitation will somehow make it more popular.

Sadly, mozilla is now an adtech company (https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/mozilla-acquires-anonym-...) and by default firefox now collects your data to sell to advertisers. We can expect less and less privacy for firefox users as Mozilla is now fully committed to trying to profit from the sale of firefox users personal data to advertisers.

	▲	ddtaylor 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As a 25 year Firefox user this is spot on. I held out for 5 years hoping they would figure something out, but all they did was release weird stuff like VPNs and half baked services with a layer of "privacy" nail polish. Brave is an example of a company doing some of the same things, but actually succeeding it appears. They have some kind of VPN thing, but also have Tor tabs for some other use cases. They have some kind of integration with crypto wallets I have used a few times, but I'm sure Firefox has a reason they can't do that or would mess it up. You can only watch Mozilla make so many mistakes while you suffer a worse Internet experience. The sad part is that we are paying the price now. All of the companies that can benefit from the Chrome lock in are doing so. The web extensions are neutered - and more is coming - and the reasons are exactly what you would expect: more ads and weird user hostile features like "you must keep this window in the foreground" that attempt to extract a "premium" experience from basic usage. Mozilla failed and now the best we have is Brave. Soon the fingerprinting will be good enough Firefox will be akin to running a Tor browser with a CAPTCHA verification can for every page load.

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wvbdmp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Particularly weird impulse for technically inclined people…

Although I must admit to the guilty pleasure of gleefully using Chromium-only features in internal apps where users are guaranteed to run Edge.

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zozbot234 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Firefox is safe from this because their CSS handling was the first thing they rewrote in Rust.

	▲	bawolff an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, even if it was written in c or c++, its unlikely two separate code bases would have the exact same use after feee vuln.

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jsheard 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Firefox and Safari are fine in this case, yeah.

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DetroitThrow 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's pretty hard to have an accidental a use after free in the FireFox CSS engine because it is mostly safe Rust. It's possible, but very unlikely.

	▲	topspin 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That came to my mind as well. CSS was one of the earliest major applications of Rust in FireFox. I believe that work was when the "Fearless Concurrency" slogan was popularized.
	▲	moritzwarhier 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Firefox and Safari developers dared the Chromium team to implement :has() and Houdini and this is the result! /s