Re: Javascript JIT in web browsers

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Adam Williamson wrote:
> Shipping a Firefox with no ability to use Javascript would be more or
> less equal to not shipping it, frankly. No-one would use the thing.

What I suggest is just to use the same old JavaScript interpreter we have 
used before the JIT was introduced, which they undoubtedly keep working for 
those platforms which don't have JIT support available at all. That doesn't 
mean no JavaScript support, just a performance impact which is probably 
negligible on most sites and much better security.

FWIW, another JavaScript JIT, the same issue (QtWebKit):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604003
(and there too I've been arguing to disable the JIT, as we've actually done 
in all stable Fedora releases so far).

And webkitgtk has the same JIT as QtWebKit and it is also disabled in 
Fedora.

        Kevin Kofler

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