It allows attackers to know even more about my system, exposing more data for fingerprinting.
Do you really want a page to know that you have a fancy-pants 24-core Mac Pro rather than a little Mac mini? Simon On May 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Filip Pizlo <[email protected]> wrote: > I like this. Personally, I don't see any downside. > > Is there a bug (on bugs.webkit.org), and if not, can you create one? :-) > > -Phil > > > On May 5, 2014 at 4:49:35 PM, Rik Cabanier ([email protected]) wrote: > >> All, >> >> there's a thread on blink-dev [1] and whatwg [2] to create a new parameter >> on the navigator object that returns the maximum number of tasks that can >> run in parallel. [3] >> >> Is this something that WebKit would support? >> >> 1: >> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6pQClqfCp4 >> 2: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-May/254200.html >> 3: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores
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