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I wonder if title should say "in Chromium-based browsers" rather than "in the browser". Especially when it doesn't run in Firefox or Safari.

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It runs relatively well in Firefox on Android, though the UI latency is a bit higher than using the Chromium engine. If Firefox fails, you should check your privacy/scripting settings, because it's working fine for me even with privacy-preserving addons installed.

Of note is that if you're on iOS, all browsers must use Safari as a rendering engine by Apple's decree, so any browser you try is actually just Safari with a skin (no Gecko/Blink). This means you can't run this on iOS, due to Apple's WASM size restrictions, regardless of the browser you try.

> Apple's WASM size restrictions

What are those? I searched for that and I got no relevant results

> This means you can't run this on iOS, due to Apple's WASM size restrictions, regardless of the browser you try.

What is this? I paid for x GB of RAM and now Apple prevents me from using it?

Edit: abstracted away actual memory size.

128GB of RAM on iOS?

The most expensive iPhone 13 models ship with 6GB of RAM.

It also works for me in firefox 96 Debian, Linux but it needs some time for downloading...

You can't open local files or save to local files. Open/Save remote crashes...

Pretty impressive though.

It's working OK in Firefox for me on 97.0 (64-bit) in Win10

In Firefox 97 on Windows, I repeatedly got "this page is slowing down your browser"; but in Firefox Nightly (99) it's amazingly smooth.

Running in Firefox 96 on an M1 Mac pretty nicely indeed :)

Scrolling feels a little big laggy but entering text and moving things around all feels snappy.

I haven't tried much yet, but it seems to work fine for me in FF97 on W10 and a modern but not extremely fancy laptop.

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