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Why would the sandbox be lost? Can't webkit's normal sandbox still operate here?

This feature uses webkit2gtk [1] which is the base for multiple full web browsers [2] and supports webkit2's normal web process isolation [3]. Is the sandboxing disabled for some reason?

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48670/the-status-o...

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications#We...

[3] https://webkitgtk.org/ & https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-secu...



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