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A browser being built from the ground up around one process per tab has an easier time implementing said feature than one with years of history? Who would've th
by Excavator 11y ago
A browser being built from the ground up around one process per tab has an easier time implementing said feature than one with years of history? Who would've thought‽
- wanderr 11y agoThe fact that they spent years arguing against its necessity rather than working on it certainly didn't help.
- frik 11y agoThere is a lot of old cruft in its web engine "gecko" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM). Many addons are XUL based and have had problems with the multi process mode. In 1-2 years hopefully Servo is ready combined with a simple HTML based UI to do what Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix did with Mozilla Suite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Naming
- glass- 11y agoAnd yet if you read the comments in this thread there are still people arguing against its necessity.