New Firefox Project Could Mean Multi-Processor Support

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Mozilla Links "Mozilla has started a new project to make Firefox split in several processes at a time: one running the main user interface (chrome), and another or several others running the web content in each tab. Like Chrome or Internet Explorer 8 which have implemented this behavior to some degree, the main benefit would be the increase of stability: a single tab crash would not take down the whole session with it, as well as performance improvements in multiprocessor systems that are progressively becoming the norm. The project, which lacks a catchy name like other Mozilla projects (like TaskFox, Ubiquity, or Chocolate Factory) is coordinated by long time Mozillian, Benjamin Smedberg; and also integrated by Joe Drew, Jason Duell, Ben Turner, and Boris Zbarsky in the core team. According to the loose roadmap published, a simple implementation that works with a single tab (not sessions support, no secure connections, either on Linux or Windows, probably not even based on Firefox) should be reached around mid-July."

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Finally!

[nausea_malvarma]

About time, mozilla. I've used firefox since it came out, and lately I've noticed it's not the hot-rod it once was. The web is changing - full of in-browser videos, web apps, and other resource intensive content, and firefox has had trouble catching up. I look forward to better speed and stability, assuming this project is seen through it's completion.

Otherwise, I'd probably switch to google chrome eventually, which doesn't have the add-on support I enjoy from firefox.