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Firefox Nightlies: Electrolysis (Multi-Process) Now Enabled by Default

posted by LaminatorX on Friday November 14 2014, @11:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the separation-of-concerns dept.

gewg_ writes:

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

 
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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday November 17 2014, @02:34PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday November 17 2014, @02:34PM (#116729) Journal

    -They've made the user interface far less customisable (no option for tabs at bottom, limited toolbar customisation options, etc).

    Am I the only person who prefers the new interface? Although I always liked Chrome's interface, and one of the major complaints I hear about Firefox's is that it's too much like Chrome. I don't need a hundred toolbars, my vertical space is limited enough as it is.

    -They've removed a great many features (status bar, addon bar, useful download manager, etc).

    Huh? The status bar is still there, it just doesn't appear when there's nothing to display. Download manager is still there too. Not sure about the "addon bar" as I have no idea what that is.

    -They keep breaking extensions, which is more particularly annoying because you need more and more extensions just to keep the browser usable.

    More extensions generally make browsers LESS usable as far as I can tell. But hey the few I use (NoScript, Ghostery, Firebug) have never broken since I installed them....

    -They've done nothing to address the real issues with Firefox, which are speed, stability and memory use (though they might have finally done something here).

    Chrome crashes *several times a day* for me; Firefox crashes maybe once a month. Haven't noticed any issues on speed or memory use, except for one particularly poorly behaved website that does cause Firefox to suck up a large amount of CPU where it does not on Chromium. Something about the Javascript performance I think, Chrome *has* always had a better JS engine...

    -They pissed off a lot of people with the hiring, and subsequent firing, of Brendan Eich and pissed off the Microsoft fanatics by cancelling the Metro version of Firefox.

    Isn't Microsoft basically dropping Metro now anyway? Might be good they didn't waste the effort!

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