Hi, On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yoav everyone on this thread is a Chromium developer and almost everyone > posting in this thread (not me) are some of the top developers working on > Chrome and many of them have spent a good deal of time working on sandbox > related issues. > All of us have a healthy disrespect for the "impossible" and would > definitely like to see plugin's sandboxed by default, but it's a very > difficult problem. We're working hard on many fronts like making more stuff > possible without plugins (HTML 5), new technologies (NaCl), etc to change > the status quo. > Sorry to intrude, but can you explain what NaCl are you talking ? Is it this one: http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ And what kind of work/use is being thought for NaCl + chromium. I'm asking this because I've looked at NaCl recently and seems very interesting.. kind regards, > > I know it doesn't mean much to you, but I've met and/or worked with many of > the developers that reached the conclusion that sandboxing plugins isn't > practical (at least by default) and I can say that they're not only some of > the smartest developers I've ever met, but that the decision was also > painful to them. > > If you wanted to help, patches would be great. But I think it'd also be > helpful if you turned it on and filed bugs when you hit compat issues. > > I'm not sure there's much else to say on the topic... > > J > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I don't really understand why you find Alex's message so frustrating. >> We'd love to make --safe-plugins the default. One road to getting >> there is having more people use the option and find the >> incompatibilities. We'd certainly welcome patches that improve it's >> compatibility. If we can make it work well enough, then we can turn >> it on by default and everyone wins. >> >> Adam >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, yoav >> zilberberg<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Alex, let me get it, are you part of the chrome team ? i don't recall >> > accusing anyone from chrome >> > but i do recall not liking your reply, so just let me know if you are >> part >> > of the devs of chrome please.... >> > i will be honest, if you are, then i think it is time for me to move to >> a >> > different browser, if you are not >> > then don't decide if i accuse the chrome team or not, let them tell me, >> and >> > like i said >> > i would remove myself in a second and with no hard feelings >> > >> >> >> > > > > -- Miguel Sousa Filipe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
