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		sp332 on May 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1 W^X JIT seems to have been solved in Firefox in 2016. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=W-XOR-E-... So that's not the specific blocker for Gecko on iOS.

Rhedox on May 25, 2021 [–]

W^X doesn't get you very far on iOS. Apps are not allowed to make pages executable at all.

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