Firefox 54 Arrives With Multi-Process Support For All Users (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 54 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes the next major phase of multi-process support, which streamlines memory use, improving responsiveness and speed. The Electrolysis project, which is the largest change to Firefox code ever, is live. Firefox now uses up to four processes to run webpage content across all open tabs. This means that complex webpages in one tab have a much lower impact on responsiveness and speed in other tabs, and Firefox finally makes better use of your computer's hardware.

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Re:Why processes instead of threads?

[Anonymous Coward]

Multi-thread programming is hard. Hiring programmers who actually know what they're doing would cut into the money needed for fancy offices and other luxuries for Mozilla executives. They're only getting $1.8 Billion from Yahoo over the course of their 5 year contract. How are they possibly supposed to produce a decent browser on THAT budget.

I was all like... there's an Eric Raymond version?

[gosand]

I seriously didn't know what the ESR version of Firefox was until I just looked it up.
I switched to Pale Moon in late 2016 and haven't looked back. I keep hearing about all these things FF is doing, and in the back of my head I am just screaming "JUST MAKE IT WORK". Maybe someday I'll go back to it, but until Pale Moon messes up, I have no reason to really.