Comment by g947o

17 hours ago

> Firefox was not selected at random. It was chosen because it is a widely deployed and deeply scrutinized open source project — an ideal proving ground for a new class of defensive tools.

What I was thinking was, "Chromium team is definitely not going to collaborate with us because they have Gemini, while Safari belongs to a company that operates in a notoriously secretive way when it comes to product development."

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jeffbee  10 hours ago

I would have started with Firefox, too. It is every bit as complex at Chromium, but as a project it has far fewer resources.

vorticalbox  17 hours ago

its just a different attack surface for safari they would need to blackbox attack the browser which is much harder than what they did her

  • rs_rs_rs_rs_rs  16 hours ago

    What? The js engine in Safari is open source, they can put Claude to work on it any time they want.

    • runjake  14 hours ago

      Here's a rough break down, formatted best I can for HN:

        Safari (closed source)
   ├─ UI / tabs / preferences
   ├─ macOS / iOS integration
   └─ WebKit framework (open source) ~60%
        ├─ WebCore (HTML/CSS/DOM)
        ├─ JavaScriptCore (JS engine)
        └─ Web Inspector

    • g947o  14 hours ago

      Apple is not the kind of company that typically does these things, even if the entire Safari is open source.