Top
Browse > Home / Firefox, Upcoming / Multi Process Firefox Demonstrated

Multi Process Firefox Demonstrated

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on June 22, 2009

Chris Pitchin has posted a video which demonstrates Firefox multi process feature.

As he explains: there are two Firefox programs running instead of one: Firefox itself, and gecko-iframe. The second program is new: it’s drawing the web pages to the screen. When I kill -9 this gecko-iframe, the “tab” containing mozilla.com. To the non-geeky, invoking kill -9 on a program causes it to crash IMMEDIATELY. Notice that only the “content” disappears when the page crashes; the user interface itself keeps running as if nothing happened.

cjones also wrote:

We don’t even have a guess for when this will be releasable. However, we’ll likely have limited-function, bleeding-edge development builds available “soon,” maybe in a few months. We’d love to have your help, even if it’s limited to pre-alpha testing!

Thanks to Nox for sending this.


 


Be the first to know. Subscribe to our RSS Feed or follow us on Twitter.

Comments

One Response to “Multi Process Firefox Demonstrated”
  1. Foo says:
    June 23, 2009 at 11:13 am

    More info about project Electrolysis:

    The team is on track to the targeted mid-July release of a very early implementation that should do exactly this. Electrolysis uses the IPC message-passing and setup code from Chromium (the open source code base for Chrome) which, like Internet Explorer 8 have a multi-process architecture.

    From Mozilla Links:
    http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/06/first-results-of-electrolysis-multi-process-firefox/

    Reply

Speak Your Mind

Tell us what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!

Subscribe to Comments RSS Feed
Bottom