The Mozilla Firefox developers are working on several different branches of the web browser at the same time. The latest public version, Firefox 3.6.6 just released today, and Firefox 3.7 which will be renamed to Firefox 4.0 later this year. The latest nightlies of Firefox 4.0 concentrate on finalizing the graphical user interface of the [...]
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Multi-Process Plugins Enabled In Latest Firefox Nightlies
Only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Google Chrome web browser are multi-process web browsers. Multi-process meaning that they separate plugins, the web browser’s core and the different websites that are opened in processes which increases the web browser’s stability and security. The Firefox developers have announced last year that they want to adapt the multi-process [...]
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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 [...]