sixteenth July 2026 – Hyperlink Weblog
Firefox in WebAssembly (through) That is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the entire browser runs in one other browser.
Here is my weblog, working in Firefox, working in WebAssembly, working in Chrome:
They selected Firefox/Gecko as a result of it has robust single-process help. The mission used an estimated $25,000 price of Claude Opus and Fable tokens, however took benefit of a Claude Max subscription plan so price a lot much less in precise {dollars}.
The demo funnels all site visitors over a WebSocket protocol (utilizing the Wisp protocol) by way of Puter’s server – a requirement to get this sort of factor to work as a result of code working in browsers cannot open arbitrary community connections.
(That proxying sounds costly! The group needed to scale the servers as much as deal with the site visitors throughout the Hacker Information dialog in regards to the mission.)
Puter declare this helps end-to-end encryption and that appears to be true – I inspected the WebSocket messages and site visitors to my very own HTTPS web site was encrypted whereas requests and responses to http://www.instance.com/ had been in cleartext.
Here is the repo for firefox-wasm. theogbob/WebkitWasm is an identical mission that compiles WebKit to WASM, however that one would not at present have an accessible on-line demo.
