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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: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday November 14 2014, @05:27PM
How? I think it's sort of a generational change in "open source" (what used to be free-as-in-freedom) software. Even the name "open source" is intentionally a smokescreen to confuse the issues of freedom versus corporate exploitation. We've gone from technical people who care about software quality to people who co-opt these projects (Firefox, Gnome, etc) and turn them into something else like corporate software. Firefox copies Chrome. Gnome ruins a decade of workflows by getting rid of fixed virtual desktops. It's like once the software gets to the point it works, projects get taken over by people who just want to churn them and change them for no reason. I think a lot of this goes back to the change from "free software" to "open source", which opened up free software to be exploited by corporations. Why do any work when you can build a walled garden on top of other people's efforts? Once Apple and Google started using Linux for their walled gardens, "open source" has gone downhill very quickly. Or, maybe the old-timers just got out of the game and moved on to something else. Whatever it is, it's happened big time in the past few years.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2014, @06:58PM
"It's like once the software gets to the point it works, projects get taken over by people who just want to churn them and change them for no reason."
They are just channeling their inner Steve Jobs.
OS X on the desktop sucks ass now for exactly this reason.
Churn for no useful USER purpose. Just the purposes of The Corporation.