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* Research into the areas of the Fx codebase that will be affected in some way when the Fx process is running at "low" integrity. | * Research into the areas of the Fx codebase that will be affected in some way when the Fx process is running at "low" integrity. | ||
* Add support for | * Add support for a "medium integrity" launch shim ("broker"), independent of the integrity level of the main Firefox process. Initially both the shim and the Fx process will run at a medium integity level. The shims purpose is to setup the future launch and OS integration of a low integrity Fx process, as well as facilitating better OS integration, including better, more secure protocol handling, application startup, and a more reliable DDE interface. | ||
* Augment the functionality of the broker so that a low integrity instance of Firefox can interact with higher integrity os systems and applications. | * Augment the functionality of the broker so that a low integrity instance of Firefox can interact with higher integrity os systems and applications. | ||