I finally updated my Firefox to quantum and was surprised to find multiprocessing. Is this considered a good thing? I only had 2 tabs open and firefox was running 5 processes. Is it running my extensions on individual processes?
On a side note: I run into a few pages here and there that are a little fucky BUT opening multiple tabs (10+) which I do often is now so much faster than the old version I was using. I'm real impressed.
All in all though quantum is pretty slick but it's annoying finding replacements for half the extensions I used to use.
>Is this considered a good thing? yes. -utilizes your multicore system -one tab fucking up won't fuck up other tabs -one process catching fire won't kill the others -one process freezing won't kill your entire browser.
> but it's annoying finding replacements for half the extensions I used to use. Open your mind and your ass will follow. It's the only way but its worth it. t. former diehard 52ESRfag.
Dominic Murphy
Firefox doesn't even go all the way with multiprocessing. Look at Chromium's in-beta strict-site-isolation if you want to see some very hard sandboxing. But, yes, it's a good thing. It uses more ram overall but there are more benefits than losses.
If you don't like it then turn it to the lowest setting.
Dylan Nelson
A lot of the new FF code is written in Rust, so yeah it's better and will get better as more of it is ported to Rust code.
Justin Wright
Firefox runs half of Chrome/Chromium's. This Chromium build has many things stripped off so vanilla Chrome should be even worst.
