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Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
Electrolysis [(a.k.a. e10s a.k.a. multi-process Firefox)] has been in development for a long time but has been prioritized only recently by Mozilla (again) after not being in focus for some time.
[...]The core idea behind the new architecture is to separate web content from the core Firefox process. The two main advantages of doing so are security and performance.
Security benefits from potential sandboxing of web contents and separation of processes, and performance mainly from the browser UI not being affected by web contents.
[...]The Are We e10s yet website lists popular browser add-ons and whether or not they are compatible with e10s yet. If you browse the list of add-ons on that page you will notice that many add-ons are not yet compatible.
Mozilla made the decision to enable e10s for Firefox Nightly versions by default with [the November 7] update. This does not mean that the last phase of development has begun and that stable users will get the feature in three release cycles, however.
[...]users can disable e10s
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2014, @04:58PM
So much this. They lost their way when they started spending more time on how things feel rather than how they work. Firefox started as the lean, working implementation of the bloated Netscape browser and its successor. Social justice took precedence over code, because fighting for right is hipper than writing code right. Then they got so hipster that they thought they were an ad company, and now they're building in ads right in the browser, making the damned thing adware [adexchanger.com]. Now one's left to wonder which thread the ads will run in, the core or the content? When will the first exploit hit the new ads? Will Mozilla ever learn to split its value-driven marketing hipster thread from its engineer thread?
(Score: 2) by fnj on Friday November 14 2014, @06:44PM
But but but it's all about how things FEEEEEEEEEEEL! Nothing else matters.