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Bug 570914

Summary: W^X JIT is now enabled by default in firefox
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Aric Belsito <lluixhi>
Component: HardenedAssignee: The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team <hardened>
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a0dbf1fe665f
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Description Aric Belsito 2016-01-04 22:46:31 UTC
In Firefox 45.0 we can reenable pax on the firefox and firefox-bin binaries.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Aric Belsito 2016-01-04 22:48:01 UTC
Correction, Firefox 46.0
Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2016-01-04 22:57:01 UTC
We are not even close to 45 or 46 release.
Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2016-01-16 04:39:42 UTC
Firefox-44.0_beta9 is now in the mozilla overlay, I have backported the change to enable by default in gentoo. I have had success on my setup would like feedback from others.