After much, much development, the developers behind AmigaOS 4 have released the first alpha of Timberwolf, the AmigaOS 4 port of the Firefox web browser. I tried it out on my Amiga, and indeed confirmed that this is very much alpha material.
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Member since:2005-07-06
If it's used in a multiprocess setup like Chrome do, yes as this allow the user to find easily which tab use too much memory|CPU and close it (and this can be used also to improve security), otherwise no..
Firefox devs are working on a multiprocess version of FF, but I don't expect it anytime soon: this kind of big change must be quite difficult to do..
Member since:2010-03-08
I agree with the multiprocess thing, myself because I hate seeing a plugin crash leading to loss of data, but as you said it's not part of Webkit itself (making it so is the goal of the Webkit2 project), it's only part of Chrome/Chromium's implementation.
Firefox as a Gecko frontend could just do the same thing and open one new Gecko process per tab without in-depth work on the underlying engine. It'd be a performance nightmare, however, because Gecko has not been optimized for such use at all, hence we'd get 100 MB/tab memory usage and such.
Maybe there would be some incompatibilities with legacy code as well, but usually rendering threads of several tabs should not interfere with each other.
Edited 2010-06-10 09:37 UTC
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2010-03-08
How is webkit "so much better" ? It's a little faster, yes, but Firefox 3.6 is reasonably fast even on older hardware (contrary to, say, IE7). It sounds way easier to port. But as a user, does Webkit really have some serious benefit over Gecko ?
Edited 2010-06-10 07:56 UTC