On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 04:44:30PM -0700, Nobody III wrote:
Should we be porting Firefox or Chromium? Chromium is already designed to use sandboxing. Also, given the critical security role of web browsers, it seems most logical to heavily modify whichever browser we port to take full advantage of Genode's security features.
Porting Tor Browser (based on Firefox) is probably one of the best moves that could be done given how privacy-orientated it is above any other browser. It's a requisite for having proper anonymous web browisng on Genode.
Although it's not a security matter, Chromium doesn't exactly have a good history when it comes to keeping the code base free. On a development level, it just seems to be code meant to be turned in to Chrome, not an intentional browser by itself like Firefox.