multi-process firefox
by Christopher Blizzard
Chris Jones has put together a demo video of a super-early stage Gecko-driven browser that’s multi-process. It’s super-duper early and realizing that we’re only in Phase I of the roadmap is important but it’s great to see such speedy progress. Release early, release often!
I would note that we have a multi-process web browser in Moblin that’s based on Mozilla-headless and Clutter :-)
Hey.
Visiting your blog and the planet with Fedora’s Firefox 3.5 package are starting to cost me quite a bit, as the videos seem to autodownload (!) and not cache (that is, clicking through the planet’s copy of your entry to here sees the video redownload).
I was wondering whether, as a courtesy to those with limited and expensive bandwidth, it was within your control to not have your content autobuffer.
I poked around about:config and the Preferences dialogue and the Add Ons search for something I could use like Flash block to no avail, though I’d be willing to do something on my end.
I’ll try to file a bug, though I note that
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462378
is resolved fixed, though I’m reproducing it here, sigh.
Ack, submitting a comment redownloads it to. Dozens of MB going down the pipes!
Dude, you haven’t released Firefox 3.5. Can we stop beating people up for not installing pre-release software? Jeez.
Chris, this blog post makes my Firefox 3.5b4 crash. I guess it’s a bug, that is fixed in newer builds already, but this is the newest version availlable prepackaged in Ubuntu Jaunty. As a result I had to switch to Epiphany to read Planet Mozilla and Planet Gnome… :(
Interestingly, it makes my Firefox 3.5rc2 from mozilla.org crash, but not my 3.5b4 build from Fedora 11.
It’s somewhat sad, since I want to use rc2 to prevent it from, say, autodownloading Chris’ elements (like I accidentally just did by clicking through to respond to the comment notification :|) but rc2 crashes on more than Chris’s website for me :)
Sigh.
Yeah, we changed auto downloading after beta4 as to avoid auto-downloading files.
Richard, what RC2 build is crashing for you? Where did you get it and what platform?
Hm… my blogposts with screencasts/videos do work on pre- and post-HTML5 browsers, blizzard. How did I do that? :-P -> http://macslow.net/?p=320
http://pj-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5rc2/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5rc2.tar.bz2
When it happens, a box is offered, asking if I want to send a crash report to Mozilla which I agree to do.
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/55700f05-86b6-46df-9148-82f8c2090622
^ here’s one
They all actually seem to occur when trying to initialised the Flash player. I’m wary of reporting a bug on this specifically in fear of getting the dreaded “That’s Flash’s problem”-type response I get from Epiphany devs that prevent me from using their browser. I’ve been pleased that Firefox traditionally hasn’t crashed if Flash did.
@Richard – can you go into about:crashes and find a url for me for the crash?
Pretty sure that’s this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497251
Christopher, Dave from City of Largo here. I just added a comment to the crashing 3.5 + Flash 10 issue. It’s easily replicated here and has kept me from increasing beta testing of this release. Hit me up on the IRC anytime (dave_largo) if I can help.
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I’m assuming the “Sadfaces. Your browser doesn’t support the <video> tag with open video formats. Try clicking here instead,” is where the tag is? I believe Chrome 3 dev was also auto-loading my videos.
What video formats does Fx3.5 run?
Ogg Theora for video and Ogg Vorbis for audio. Also wav for audio, now that I think about it.
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