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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 tibman on Friday November 14 2014, @05:47PM
Something else is wrong with your computer. If FF brings your machine to its knees then you won't be able to play games, watch movies, or do anything computationally intensive. What exactly is happening? With 12GB you shouldn't be going to swap which means it is using all of your CPU? Except FF literally cannot do this (prior to multi-process). If FF is maxing one of your four cores and your machine is that slow then you have a completely different and unrelated problem.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 14 2014, @06:20PM
Oh, looky here. It's the old "it's a problem with your computer" excuse that you Firefox guys like to use, totally ignoring that the sane computer runs Chrome and other non-Mozilla browsers just fine, along with every other app the user uses. But the problem MUST be with the computer. It CAN'T be with Firefox, even though Firefox is the only software running on the computer that's broken. Riiiiiight.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday November 14 2014, @06:54PM
Install firefox and actually try it. Its nearly identical to Chrome. I use three browsers daily (Chrome, FF, and IE) for work. Chome is the fastest. FF is decent. IE blows but is used for compatibility. I literally have all three browsers open right now. Six tabs in FF (gmail, pandora, 4x SN). Chrome has a jasmine test runner open and some knockout api docs. IE has my company site open. Other applications i have open (on windows 7): Visual Studio 2013, Notepad++, SMSS, RDP, GitHub, PHPStorm7. This is a pretty shitty laptop imo. Specs below:
CPU: Intel Core i5 2520M @2.5 GHz (2 physical cores)
RAM: 8 GB DDR3
MB: Dell
Graphics: Intel HD
Storage: 700GB SATA spinning drive.
If my terrible laptop can do all this then yours with 50% more RAM and double the CPU cores can do far better. Something is wrong with your OS. Its very possible that FF does make your computer crawl. Its worth figuring out why. Could be infected with something?
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