@edkollin I really do hope that Mozilla plans to include sandboxing in the Firefox ESR edition as well as in the standard edition with the 6 week development cycle. It shouldn't be that difficult to tap into Windows integrity levels. This is essential if Mozilla wishes to match the security features provided with both IE and Chrome.
Apple will require Mac OS X sandboxing in Firefox offered via the Mac App Store. Otherwise, Firefox will get kicked out.
The Linux desktop, with its 1-2 % market share, can get by without a sandbox built-into Firefox (a la Chrome/Chromium) as the malware miscreants have no economic incentive to target such a small user base. However, Linux distros can choose to provide default LSM profiles/policies for Firefox (some already do) whereupon a user can simply enable (or modify, if necessary) the profiles/policies if he/she desires the added protection.
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