Mozilla Firefox 48 beta web browser has the ability to split processes
The authors of the Mozilla Firefox web browser released in beta the 48th version of the web browser (Windows), in which users expect an important feature. The web browser finally got the ability to split processes by default. Such an event is very significant for Firefox users, since, previously, the web browser did all its work in one process. Against this background, it looked rather pale compared to its competitors MS Edge, Google Chrome, and MS IE11. In addition, the lack of this feature limited the ability to create a full-fledged sandbox, and also affected the stability of the work.
However, while we are not talking about the separation of the process-on-tab, and implies the separation of the web browser on the basis of two processes. The first is responsible for working with the user interface GUI, and the second for playing the contents of the tabs. The tab-splitting project in Firefox is called Electrolysis (e10s), the documentation for it describes the features of the new mode of the web browser. According to Ars Technica , Firefox can get a complete separation of tab processes later this year.
')
The above feature was already available to users of the beta version of Firefox 47, but to enable it in a web browser, it was necessary to activate a special setting.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox
Recall that Mozilla Firefox already uses a separate process for launching plug-ins to the web browser (plugin_container.exe) there, now the same rule will apply to the content of web pages visited by the user.
A new version of the web browser can be downloaded on the Mozilla ftp server or in the beta section . At the time of writing the post, the new beta version was available only through an ftp server.
Note that by far the most secure web browsers for Windows 10 are Google Chrome and MS Edge. Both use tab separation on a 64-bit basis, and also rely on the sandbox for AppContainer-based processes. In addition, both browsers use special methods of protection against LPE exploits using the methods of so-called. win32k.sys lockdown. Some of the security features were made possible by separating the functions of the web browser into processes, which made it possible to separate the main GUI process from the running processes of tabs with sandboxed content. Recently, Google also changed the Chrome for Windows download page so that the link to the default web browser download leads to its 64-bit version.
However, while we are not talking about the separation of the process-on-tab, and implies the separation of the web browser on the basis of two processes. The first is responsible for working with the user interface GUI, and the second for playing the contents of the tabs. The tab-splitting project in Firefox is called Electrolysis (e10s), the documentation for it describes the features of the new mode of the web browser. According to Ars Technica , Firefox can get a complete separation of tab processes later this year.
')
The above feature was already available to users of the beta version of Firefox 47, but to enable it in a web browser, it was necessary to activate a special setting.
Firefox will now run through browser content. In the first iteration of the architecture of the same process In the future iterations, we expect The project that's delivering multiprocess Firefox is called Electrolysis, sometimes abbreviated to e10s.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox
Recall that Mozilla Firefox already uses a separate process for launching plug-ins to the web browser (plugin_container.exe) there, now the same rule will apply to the content of web pages visited by the user.
A new version of the web browser can be downloaded on the Mozilla ftp server or in the beta section . At the time of writing the post, the new beta version was available only through an ftp server.
Note that by far the most secure web browsers for Windows 10 are Google Chrome and MS Edge. Both use tab separation on a 64-bit basis, and also rely on the sandbox for AppContainer-based processes. In addition, both browsers use special methods of protection against LPE exploits using the methods of so-called. win32k.sys lockdown. Some of the security features were made possible by separating the functions of the web browser into processes, which made it possible to separate the main GUI process from the running processes of tabs with sandboxed content. Recently, Google also changed the Chrome for Windows download page so that the link to the default web browser download leads to its 64-bit version.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/302898/
All Articles