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One of the coolest features in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 is the way the web browsers treats each open tab or window as a separate process. That means if one tab crashes, the browser won't necessarily close. Plugins like Adobe Flash can also fail without crashing the browser.
Mozilla is working on bringing a similar feature to Firefox. It's not ready for prime time yet, and it won't be included in Firefox 3.5, which is due out any day now. But Chris Jones, one of the people working on the project, has posted a short video that shows an early version of the project (codenamed Electrolysis) in action. As an added bonus, if you click that link in Firefox 3.5 RC2, you'll be able to watch the video in your browser without any plugins.
The video shows what happens when a page goes bad and a process is terminated and restarted. Electrolysis should be ready for general consumption in mid-July.
[via Mozilla Links]
Mozilla is working on bringing a similar feature to Firefox. It's not ready for prime time yet, and it won't be included in Firefox 3.5, which is due out any day now. But Chris Jones, one of the people working on the project, has posted a short video that shows an early version of the project (codenamed Electrolysis) in action. As an added bonus, if you click that link in Firefox 3.5 RC2, you'll be able to watch the video in your browser without any plugins.
The video shows what happens when a page goes bad and a process is terminated and restarted. Electrolysis should be ready for general consumption in mid-July.
[via Mozilla Links]
Comments
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Subscribe to comments216Jun 22nd 2009 2:46PM
i like that this idea has become a general standard of browsers now.
Altho its funny that IE got onto the idea before FF did
nazJun 22nd 2009 4:08PM
looking forward to this feature
TyvdJun 22nd 2009 5:39PM
Firefox really could use this pretty badly. I'm tired of the entire browser dying and my session addon not being able to recover everything that was open at the time. I really hope this is put into place before 2010.
KeegdnaBJun 22nd 2009 7:22PM
Hopefully with this will also come support for Windows 7 thumbnails in the not-too-distant future
iofthestormJun 23rd 2009 2:26AM
My somewhat educated guess is that we'll see more Vista/7 integration in the form of Aero glass and thumbnails in the next version of Firefox.
Matt WaltonJun 23rd 2009 4:32AM
I think this is a bad idea. It is obvious when running chrome that the browser ends up using much more memory in order to keep all of the processes separate. I like to leave a lot of tabs open and because Firefox lumps them all together it keeps the memory cost down. Hopefully thought with any luck the boys at Mozilla have figured out a way to separate the process without using tons of ram like the memory leaks of previous versions of FF.
finalanimestopJun 26th 2009 6:54PM
Well honestly, I think it would be a great idea :) Because I absolutely HATE it when things like that happen...
voltagekJun 28th 2009 10:39PM
use ad on called session manger will recover tabs if browser crashes