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 Three broad goals summarize the work required:
-* 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 the areas of the Mozilla codebase which will be affected by applications running at a "low" integrity.
-* Add support for a medium integrity launch shim ("broker") designed to support a low integrity level Firefox process as well as better os security and integration (see bug 396196). Both shim and Firefox will run at medium integrity initially.
+* Add support for a medium integrity launch shim ("broker") for Firefox. (bug 396196)
-handling, application startup, and a more reliable DDE interface.
+* Augment the functionality of the broker to support a low integrity instance of Firefox which can interact with the os and applications running at higher integrity levels..
-* Augment the functionality of the broker so that a low integrity instance of Firefox can interact with higher integrity os systems and applications.
 == Potential Areas Affected / Issues ==