[tbb-bugs] #21549 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate wasm for linkability/fingerprintability/disk avoidance issues

Fri Jun 14 21:34:20 UTC 2019

#21549: Investigate wasm for linkability/fingerprintability/disk avoidance issues
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 Reporter:  gk                              |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  task                            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Very High                       |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser        |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                          |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff60-esr, TorBrowserTeam201809  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by legind):

 Update: in https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/pull/18093, HTTPS
 Everywhere includes WASM optimizations.  So Tor Browser would see an OOTB
 performance increase and memory overhead decrease by enabling WASM in
 extension-land.

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