Few years ago, at revolution, Chrome told us about MITM attack and refused to connect to Google servers, while Firefox noticed nothing.
Few years later, attackers used my Chromium, which I used for work, to spy on my Firefox window, which I use for private browsing, by capturing of whole screen when Chromium sit unused. (I have it recorded on video).
Yes the classic memory-related bugs come from the engine, but the comment explicitely mentioned leaks and I don't think that was about the memory ones. Many of the new "features" turned out to leak sensitive or at least identification-enabling information. Imo having remote code execution without a big red warning that this is stupid and you should not do it that users can't click away without being forced to think about it just isn't a good idea, even if it is sandboxed. At the very least we should have a permission-based system where users need to authorize every single Javascript API, for every single connection/file/database/whatever and be unable to ignore it without disabling the APIs. That would imo be the best compromise since web-devs would be forced to think about what they are doing to users computers¹ while still allowing applications to be built.
¹ My hope being that they wouldn't include [bullshit fontend framework] except when absolutely necessary
https://twitter.com/JimMcKeeth/status/692596120464150528/pho...
Indeed, users don't read error messages, and will just click whatever they think they need to click to move on.