Firefox to jump on the split process bus
While Google’s Chrome Web browser is still extremely young in terms of development, there are a few areas where it most definitely pushed browser technology forward. One such area is tabbed browsing. As you likely already know, Chrome (and now Internet Explorer 8 as well) treats each open tab as a separate running process. This setup drastically reduces the potential for a browser crash — theoretically, issues with a website open in one tab will not affect other tabs or general browser operation — as well as speeding up performance and going great lengths to improve browser security. As for when we might see the new tab process implementation in a Firefox release, incremental milestones are scheduled throughout 2009 but we likely won’t see full implementation until next year. Mozilla’s post covering process splitting does mention some elements that are currently undecided, such as “taking Chromium’s networking stack to replace Necko” might help speed the release process up a bit, but we don’t mind waiting as long as it’s done right.
[Via The Next Web]
I use internet explorer so this is good news for the competition!
Please use the not-beta Firefox logo. Thanks
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2007/08/responsible_log.html
Fixed, thanks Asa.
lmao that beta logo messed up your daily news cycle huh
I love firefox. anything that makes it even better I am all for it.
Did you forget Opera, the first ever tabbed browser?
speaking of logos, does anyone know what continent is showing on the globe? It’s been bugging me for years…
@DavidThande
Why? Seriously haven’t used IE forever what changed from fubar days?
IE vs Firefox is not even an issue, thank god for firefox, if they can make it better that’s awesome news. What’s shocking to me is how come they don’t have a browser for Blackberry, people would pay for that.