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Out-of-process plugins landing soon in Firefox as a minor update (3.6.4)
According to minutes posted from a recent platform meeting, the change will arrive in the upcoming Firefox 3.6.4 update. The public beta announcement will be made in the next few days, though you can already download builds from the Mozilla Nightly FTP if you'd rather not wait. By the beginning of next month the update should be available in-browser for existing Mozilla users. They've pegged May 4th as the day 3.6.4 final will ship.
This is a fairly big change in update philosophy from Mozilla. In the past, a new feature as significant as out-of-process-plugins would never have been slated for a minor release such as 3.6.4. However, with Google furiously pushing updates to Chrome, an impressive Opera 10.5x on the market, and IE9 generating buzz Mozilla can't afford to be complacent.
O-o-p-p is a good place to start -- now let's see that proposed change for the Javascript engine and no-restart extensions!
[via Mozilla Links]
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Subscribe to commentsJamesApr 8th 2010 10:58AM
"...now let's see that proposed change for the Javascript engine and no-restart extensions!"
Don't forget extension syncing!
Lee MathewsApr 8th 2010 10:59AM
To be fair, none of Firefox's syncing abilities are built-in. But I'd like to see it. Surely Weave is mature enough to build in -- it's just a question of whether enough of Firefox's users _want_ syncing to warrant the addition....
AnthonyApr 8th 2010 7:51PM
I sure as hell know I want to see it included. It'd make my job easier and would take up less of my time trying to keep ff add-ons synced across all of my computers and operating systems.
216Apr 8th 2010 11:18AM
Hmm will it be enough to bring me back from Chrome? Prolly not. But its nice to see improvement
jkroederApr 8th 2010 11:20AM
No-restart extensions exist in the form of Jetpack which is pretty much the same extension system in Chrome. Difference being, I don't think there's much support for Jetpack yet that I've seen. Most people don't seem to be very interested when the regular extension system works fine for most people. Well.. that and the regular extension system gives support for more powerful extensions.
Jetpack and Chrome's extension systems are just too limited.
SilverWaveApr 8th 2010 12:08PM
Yep - this is good, but we really need is a faster ff _speed_ is the key!
Byron YuApr 8th 2010 12:13PM
Is there no en-US version, on the FTP server? I didn't see it. Or did I just completely miss it?
AnthonyApr 8th 2010 7:48PM
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-firefox-3.6.x/
sunnytimes68Apr 8th 2010 5:38PM
"no-restart extensions!"
with a bunch of the new fixes in the nighties the restart is way faster than in stable build so it makes that point even less important .. mozilla needs to keep working on speed and less on more stuff ..
Sinani201Apr 8th 2010 5:46PM
Finally! All I can do is hope the Quake LIVE will use this, and then Firefox wont crash every time I quit a game!
codeman38Apr 8th 2010 10:04PM
This is now out of the nightlies and a (seemingly) official beta:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.3plugin1/
Boomshadow...Mike BoomshadowApr 9th 2010 9:00AM
You down with o-o-p-p?