Re: Necko e10s specs

On 9/2/09 7:09 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:

> Are you guys aware of the HTML5 spec requirements surrounding the
> "storage mutex"?
> 
> Basically we need to ensure that we don't have races where Necko
> modifying cookies makes them appear to change while content script is
> running.

I was vaguely aware, but we got a lot more aware of them today. I've posted
some questions/proposals to WhatWG: the current global storage mutex is
really unpleasant and I think we'd like to avoid it if it's not too painful
to do so.

--BDS