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I just tested Firefox 37 (Developer Edition) and Firefox 38 (Nightly). The multi-process "Electrolysis" support in 38 is great. Several tabs with flash plugin

by frik 12y ago

I just tested Firefox 37 (Developer Edition) and Firefox 38 (Nightly). The multi-process "Electrolysis" support in 38 is great. Several tabs with flash plugin work fine now, without slowing down the whole browser. Though, I still see only one main process for all web sites (there is a child process "plugin-container"), that's a bit disappointing. IE 9+, Chrome and Safari 7+ spawn a new process for every x sites - a child process with little permissions (a technique known as "sandbox"). Maybe we have to wait a little longer for Mozilla's Rust based Servo engine.

wldcordeiro 12y ago
If you have Electrolysis there should be more than just firefox and plugin-container. Currently I run Nightly as my main browser and have to keep it disabled though due to some plugins I use lacking Electrolysis support (the fix is not on the plugin maker's side.)
- frik 12y ago
  I run the current Firefox 38 Nightly 64-bit Windows version with "Enable E10S (multi-process)" turned on (default setting). There are only two processes.
  - dblohm7 12y ago
    That's temporary. Once e10s has been stabilized with one content process, they'll look into scaling that up.
- cpeterso 12y ago
  Note that both the Flash sandbox process and the Electrolysis content process are named "plugin-container.exe". If you just see a Firefox and one plugin-container process, it is likely the content process, not Flash.