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Firefox is now running as WebAssembly inside a browser
Puter has compiled Firefox to WebAssembly so that an entire browser runs inside another browser. The project used an estimated $25,000 worth of Claude Opus tokens, but benefited from a discount program that significantly reduced costs. All traffic goes through the Wisp protocol over a WebSocket connection to Puter's servers, with support for end-to-end encryption.
WHY IT MATTERS
This demonstrates the potential for radical virtualization of entire user interfaces and applications through the web browser, and shows how powerful WebAssembly and AI-assisted code generation have become as tools in the technology stack.
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