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bicepjaitoday at 4:54 PM4 repliesview on HN

So basically Firefox is not affected ?


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hdgvhicvtoday at 5:43 PM

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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zozbot234today at 5:48 PM

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

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jsheardtoday at 4:57 PM

Firefox and Safari are fine in this case, yeah.

DetroitThrowtoday at 5:01 PM

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.

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