Firefox Lorentz Keeps Plugin Crashes Under Control

pastababa writes "A beta of the Firefox Lorentz project is now available for download and public testing. Eming reports Firefox 'Lorentz' provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when there is a crash in plugins. Plugins run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted. The process-isolation feature has been in Google's Chrome from the beginning. Chrome sandboxes individual tabs, and the crash of one tab does not affect the running of the rest of Chrome browser. Firefox currently isolates only Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime, and Microsoft Silverlight, but will eventually isolate all plugins running on a page. Mozilla encourages users to test Firefox 'Lorentz' on their favorite websites. Users who install Firefox 'Lorentz' will eventually be automatically updated to a future version of Firefox 3.6 in which this feature is included."

Comments

No One Gives A Fuck About You

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey dipshit. The rest of the computing world doesn't what some random idiot on Slashdot like you has to say about what version number a browser is labeled with.

Chrome absolute destroys the STINKING PILE OF FAIL that is Firefox in speed, resource usage, stability, and every other possible metric with the single exception of Ad blocking versus hiding. And even that is soon to change.

So go right ahead retard and keep using your 'production-ready' piece of shit browser. No one gives a crap.

Re:How is this new?

[commodore64_love]

Good. Maybe it will stop the moderators tendency to click on a UserID, and mod down every single one of a user's posts, simply because they don't like that user. (As some mods were doing Thursday and Friday.)

I was unable to post all day Friday because of a concerted attack. I posted about 5 messages, and then kept getting a "users of your karma cannot post..." message due to the damage caused against my ID by having all my previous messages marked "troll" or "flamebait" by a vicious A-hole Mod(s). I looked at the messages and while 1 or 2 might have deserved the -1 hit, most were simply me sharing information I found online with the users.

This same mod or mods was attacking other users as well, such as Mark-t.