16th July 2026 - Link Blog
Firefox in WebAssembly (via) This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser.
Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in Chrome:
They chose Firefox/Gecko because it has strong single-process support. The project used an estimated $25,000 worth of Claude Opus and Fable tokens, but took advantage of a Claude Max subscription plan so cost much less in actual dollars.
The demo funnels all traffic over a WebSocket protocol (using the Wisp protocol) through Puter's server - a requirement to get this kind of thing to work because code running in browsers can't open arbitrary network connections.
