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Mozilla taps Google Chrome source code to bring multi-process plugins to Firefox
Yes, the same superpower which prevents Google Chrome from tanking entirely when a single plugin bites the dust are now built in to Firefox's core as well. In fact, it's built in using some of the open source Chromium code.
The feature is disabled by default for now, so to switch it on you'll have to head to your about:config and change the dom.ipc.plugins.enabled value to true. After you restart Minefield, pulling up task manager should show you that your plugins are now running in their own process.
It's not one-tab-per-process yet, but it's a start - and a sign that Mozilla fully intends to keep pace with Google Chrome.
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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Nick said 4:58PM on 12-16-2009
This is exactly what Google wants.
They leave specific technologies through FOSS.
Because of that, (third party) software develops along the paths Google desires.
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Lee Mathews said 5:00PM on 12-16-2009
True, Nick.
Google always says they want "a better web" so that services can really shine. If they leave code which allows their services to perform better open and other browsers integrate it, so much the better.
In the end, it makes things like GMail and YouTube more stable, faster, etc. etc.
Rune Star said 5:04PM on 12-16-2009
What is that '' arrow thing on the Task Manager's Title Bar in the screenshot?
btw, glad to see Firefox is doing this... Lately my firefox is crashing multiple times a day.
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Lee Mathews said 5:04PM on 12-16-2009
That's TeamViewer's single-window sharing icon ;)
Rune Star said 5:44PM on 12-16-2009
Oh, a remote access app, cool thanks. :)
SilverWave said 7:25PM on 12-16-2009
You are doing something wrong.
firefox -p will let you create a new profile - then add your addon back in one at a time.
I _never_ get a crash with ff.
SilverWave said 7:28PM on 12-16-2009
try a ready built profile from here:
http://www.instantfox.com/
Josh said 5:04PM on 12-16-2009
Doesn't seem to work in the Mac version.
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Kris120890 said 5:46PM on 12-16-2009
What build are you using it doesn't work for me.
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Phylop said 8:22PM on 12-16-2009
For some reason in Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 I can't find dom.ipc.plugins.enabled. Anyone else have that trouble?
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danielkza said 8:38PM on 12-16-2009
It's not on 3.6, only in the source control trunk: you'll need one of the recent nightly builds based on it. (a.k.a. 3.7).
puja said 12:49AM on 12-17-2009
for tabs there's already the dom.ipc.tabs.enabled value, but changing it to true doesn't trigger anything (for me at least) - maybe a hint to some very soon to come one-tab-per-process
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puja said 2:03AM on 12-17-2009
btw, enabling the separate process for plugins breaks fullscreen functions of flashplayers (like on youtube) - the video gets fullscreened in the background, while firefox stays in the foreground
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