Mozilla adds multiprocessing with Electrolysis in Firefox 54
Conclusions
According to software developer Ronan Cremin, an average website's volume has more than tripled over the past six years [12]. Accessing such a website today loads a volume of data comparable to downloading the compressed setup of the computer game Doom. The new Multiprocess Firefox 54 is now finally adapting to this development. Anyone who works with tabs a lot and jumps back and forth between Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers will certainly notice the improvements.
However, a lot still needs to be done: In this test, Electrolysis occasionally crashed browser tabs, and numerous incompatible extensions [13] still exist, so the "best Firefox ever" still has room to improve – especially considering how Phoenix and Firebird (Firefox has had to change its name several times) released users from IE's clutches. But in any case, this is the right path.
Infos
- Browser statistics: https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/
- Electrolysis: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
- Multiprocess Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox
- Firefox 54.0 release notes: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/54.0/releasenotes
- "The Best Firefox Ever": https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/13/faster-better-firefox/
- Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
- "NoScript add-on does not work with e10s": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1058542
- Add-on Compatibility Reporter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
- WebExtensions: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions
- JetStream: http://browserbench.org/JetStream
- "Firefox memory usage with multiple content processes": http://www.erahm.org/2017/05/15/firefox-memory-usage-with-multiple-content-processes/
- "The web is Doom": https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/the-web-is-doom
- "Are we e10s yet?": https://www.arewee10syet.com
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