It’s not possible to launch a JIT-enabled and JIT-less window at the same time with the same profile or with separate profiles, which all launch in the same browser instance, but it is possible with separate data directories (set with the --user-data-dir flag):
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That’s fair, i should have clarified
Seems too much of a pain to be worth it imo. Maybe that’s a feature they can have an easy toggle for
Oh that is odd. I don’t have this problem actually.
WebKit is not a secure browser engine as it doesn’t support site isolation among other things.
I think safari has something similar to site isolation, it is called ITP.
In iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, Safari added a feature called Intelligent
Tracking Prevention to address this problem. The goal of ITP is to limit tracking
while still enabling websites to function normally. ITP works by learning which
domains are used to track a user and then immediately isolating and purging
the tracking data that they attempt to store on the user’s device. The process
of learning about domains uses machine learning and happens on device, so
it doesn’t share the user’s browsing history information with Apple. This ondevice approach applies the same high standard to every website that is visited.
And because ITP is turned on by default, there is no need to change anything in
Settings or Safari preferences to receive tracking protection.
Lightweight browsers are much less secure than Chromium as they typically don’t have sandboxes and exploit mitigations nor is there much security research done on the project.
I think safari use less energy because of the tight integration with the OS, not because of being “Lightweight”.
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