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Not sure why we need this. Without plugins (flash, java, silverlight) , firefox IS pretty stabled.
by mariusmg 13y ago
Not sure why we need this. Without plugins (flash, java, silverlight) , firefox IS pretty stabled.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoBecause my firefox often freezes for a while when I open something like video section of thedailyshow.com Given how cheap memory is, and the fact that almost all new devices are multicore I see this as a big positive.
- pekk 13y agoDo you honestly think it is reasonable to expect everyone not to use any plugins? Let me know how they are going to, say, get audio from webapps. I guess everything is stable, if you just avoid all the features everyone uses.
- hsivonen 13y ago> Let me know how they are going to, say, get audio from webapps. HTML <audio>? Web Audio API?
- kunil 13y agoBecause "one bad js = frozen browser" is bad
- darkstalker 13y agoIt's needed to attract the die hard Chrome users back to Firefox.
- reubenmorais 13y agoThis is more about responsiveness. It's not just about slow script, if you open a very large text file in a tab, the entire Firefox UI stalls. If you have some moderately heavy operation happening in a different tab, scrolling gets choppy across the board, switching tabs is janky, etc etc etc.
- khuey 13y agoFirefox has run plugins out of process for years.