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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Re:As a Developer the Question I Have Is ...

[Hurricane78]

How will the computers in those "emerging markets" run Windows 7 anyway?

By the way, did anyone notice this?
95 -> 4
98 -> 4.1
Me -> 4.2
2000 -> 5
XP -> 6
Vista -> 7
7 -> 7

Or how do they get to the 7? Looks like someone is acknowledging, that Windows 7 is just a service pack, and what Vista should have been. ^^

Why do we need an operating system?

[MarkvW]

Are we always going to need operating systems?