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That should still work.

They didn’t isolate all the Firefox processes from X11. Only the content processes are affected, i.e. the processes whose attack surface is rather massive.

But the content processes are still going to deliver their finished work items to the GPU process for rendering. The GPU process retains all the rights it needs, including talking to X11.



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