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Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in WebAssembly.Here are a few things you might find interesting:- This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets.- There is a novel WASM-