Latest Firefox Nightlies Comes With Multi-Process Support
One of the new trends in web browser development is to separate various modules of the web browser, like different tabs and the core engine, in different processes to increase the web browser's stability and security. Currently only Google Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer support these techniques.
Lately though the guys behind the Mozilla Firefox web browser have shown interest in adding multi-process support to the Firefox browser as well. And with the latest nightlies of Firefox came that support. Even more interesting is that the Mozilla developers “borrowed†the code from the Google Chrome source code which is Open Source.
One of the new trends in web browser development is to separate various modules of the web browser, like different tabs and the core engine, in different processes to increase the web browser's stability and security. Currently only Google Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer support these techniques.
Lately though the guys behind the Mozilla Firefox web browser have shown interest in adding multi-process support to the Firefox browser as well. And with the latest nightlies of Firefox came that support. Even more interesting is that the Mozilla developers “borrowed†the code from the Google Chrome source code which is Open Source.
