Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Aug 2012 00:20 UTC, submitted by Markus Su
Mozilla's Dave Mason, when asked by derStandard.at what the most scary part of Firefox' roadmap is: "It has to be Firefox OS which is a huge step for Mozilla. It is exciting and scary at the same time. This is the first time we had to partner with some other companies to get to the end results so that's a hard transition for us." I commend Mozilla for attempting this. I've been trying out Firefox on my Nexus 7 today, and it's really, really good (save for the interface, which needs some serious Holo love). If this is an indication for what Firefox OS is going to be like - good on 'm.
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RE: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise!
by Lennie on Mon 13th Aug 2012 13:17
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Judging by the description, they do use seperate processes:
The b2g process may spawn a number of low-rights "content processes". These are where web applications and other web content are loaded. These process communicate with the main Gecko server process through IPDL, a message-passing system.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture
Basically, what Chrome does.
There are many reasons why Mozilla didn't change their architecture. The most important one is obviously compatibility with existing code. With B2G they didn't have that limitation.
Edited 2012-08-13 13:22 UTC
RE: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise!
by Radio on Mon 13th Aug 2012 13:22
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Oh, please. Why do you think nobody did it before Chrome? That solution is not better than the other: there are tradeoffs. One-process-per-tab is using a lot of ressources and makes it more difficult for add-ons to modify a webpage (e.g. Adblock in firefox blocks ads before they begin to download whereas Adblock in Chrome only hides/discharges them after they load).
Why do you want Firefox to look more like Chrome (which, alas, is the trend)? Use Chrome.
RE[2]: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise!
by renox on Mon 13th Aug 2012 15:38
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One-process-per-tab is using a lot of ressources
Chrome has a setting to use one process for everything, so in low memory condition you can use this if you want. and makes it more difficult for add-ons to modify a webpage (e.g. Adblock in firefox blocks ads before they begin to download whereas Adblock in Chrome only hides/discharges them after they load).
There should be two kind of add-ons, in-process flexible but unsafe and out-of-process: safer but less flexible. Why do you want Firefox to look more like Chrome (which, alas, is the trend)? Use Chrome.
I do, but I like Firefox too, I'd like it even better if they fixed the browser.
RE[2]: "Firefox OS is a huge and scary step"? No surprise!
by _xmv on Wed 15th Aug 2012 09:56
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Given that they didn't even manage to rework Firefox's architecture to allow a process per website (a la Chrome), I would trust a Firefox OS as much as Windows95 i.e. not at all.