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Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by bitmapbrother »

sergiotapia wrote: post #34
chrisper wrote: post #32

Does anyone know what the incentive behind the development of Firefox is at this point? Like, Chrome has such a huge browser market share, so why do they still develop Firefox? I assume it is not that feasible to invest time and money if the share is only 4%. I am just curious, and not trying to hate on Firefox. But I think most (?) non-tech people use Chrome. So maybe I am asking, what is the point of Firefox if the…

There was a time where Chrome was the up and comer with very low market-share. We need competition or we will suffer as end users. Chrome's time will also come eventually. It's not a matter of if, but when. Vivaldi and Brave are growing and coming along very nicely. Brave is actually spearheaded by the ex CEO of Mozilla before he was fired for some nonsense. https://brave.com/

If Chrome's time ever comes you can be sure it'll never be at the hands of Vivaldi or Brave. One more thing, these are nothing but frontends to Google's Chromium.

Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by shmerl »

> Our measurements and user feedback were all positive and so with Firefox 50 we deployed multi-process Firefox to users with a broader set of extensions, those whose authors have marked them as multi-process compatible.

How can one check if some extension is marked as such?

I'm using Firefox beta (which is now 51.0b9) and I noticed that Firefox now splits a separate "Web" process. Is that the indication that multiprocess is enabled?

I also set in the past in about:config

    browser.tabs.remote.autostart = true

Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by dkonofalski »

anexprogrammer wrote: post #14
saberworks wrote: post #8

It would be really nice if the addons/extensions page showed which addons were listed as compatible and which weren't. I might thus make a decision to disable/delete an addon or two that were blocking me from using multiprocess firefox. As it is, I have no idea if my firefox is using multiprocess at all. All I know is that I use a lot of addons and I'm probably not, then, using multiprocess.

I'm stuck as half the addons I find useful aren't compatible. The two most notable are 1password and Self Destructing Cookies

1Password isn't compatible with multi-process? That sucks. :(

I use 1Pass for everything but I use Chrome right now. I've been eyeing Firefox again (it used to be my primary browser) but that kinda kills the deal for me. I'll probably start integrating it slowly. I can't imagine 1Pass will hold out for too long.

Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by disiplus »

anexprogrammer wrote: post #14
saberworks wrote: post #8

It would be really nice if the addons/extensions page showed which addons were listed as compatible and which weren't. I might thus make a decision to disable/delete an addon or two that were blocking me from using multiprocess firefox. As it is, I have no idea if my firefox is using multiprocess at all. All I know is that I use a lot of addons and I'm probably not, then, using multiprocess.

I'm stuck as half the addons I find useful aren't compatible. The two most notable are 1password and Self Destructing Cookies

Lastpass + Self Destructing Cookies for me :(

Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by dsr_ »

anexprogrammer wrote: post #14
saberworks wrote: post #8

It would be really nice if the addons/extensions page showed which addons were listed as compatible and which weren't. I might thus make a decision to disable/delete an addon or two that were blocking me from using multiprocess firefox. As it is, I have no idea if my firefox is using multiprocess at all. All I know is that I use a lot of addons and I'm probably not, then, using multiprocess.

I'm stuck as half the addons I find useful aren't compatible. The two most notable are 1password and Self Destructing Cookies

I forced it in nightly just now and Self Destructing Cookies appears to be working.

Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by diggan »

baby wrote: post #54

Anyone knows if Tree Style Tab is supported?

Using Tree Style Tab myself and forced multiprocess. Sometimes when I close a tab, it folds some other tabs into it, but they are still active and you can alt + tab to them, but not visible in the UI. Not that it bothers me too much, since activating multiprocess gave me a huge performance increase

Re: Update on Multi-Process Firefox

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Post by frio »

disiplus wrote: post #55
anexprogrammer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm stuck as half the addons I find useful aren't compatible. The two most notable are 1password and Self Destructing Cookies

Lastpass + Self Destructing Cookies for me :(

FWIW, I use Lastpass with e10s and it all seems to work OK :).
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