Firefox and Parallelization to Processes

The developers of the beloved browser seriously took up the possibility of processing pages and content by several processes at once, this should allow to solve several problems at once, quote:



* Stability : in case the plug-in or element of the page tries to completely occupy the processor or memory of the machine or causes a critical error, the process isolates these events from everything else;

* Productivity : the division of tasks into several processes will allow you to use the advantages of multi-core processors installed on most modern desktop and portable devices, as well as increase the "responsiveness" of the interface during long page processing operations;

* Security : performing work in processes with reduced rights, the browser isolates the active contents of sites from the user's system.



Development plan can be viewed on the wiki.

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Also available is a demo that shows some of the achievements of the Mozilla team at this stage of development.



You can discuss this development on channel #content on the server irc.mozilla.org