Firefox gets multi-processor support
May 7th, 2009
Mozilla started a project to make Firefox split in several processes at a time: one running the main user interface and another or several others running the content in each tab. Like Chrome or Internet Explorer 8 which have implemented this behavior to some extent, the main advantage would be the increase of stability: a single tab crash would not take down the whole session, as well as performance improvements in multiprocessor systems that are progressively becoming the norm.
The project is coordinated by Mozillian Benjamin Smedberg and integrated by Joe Drew, Jason Duell, Ben Turner and Boris Zbarsky in the core team.
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