multi-process firefox

June 22, 2009 in Firefox, Gecko | 17 comments

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!

  1. Paul Cooper’s avatar

    Paul Cooper on June 22, 2009 at 8:20 am

    I would note that we have a multi-process web browser in Moblin that’s based on Mozilla-headless and Clutter :-)

  2. Richard’s avatar

    Richard on June 22, 2009 at 8:24 am

    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.

  3. Richard’s avatar

    Richard on June 22, 2009 at 8:25 am

    Ack, submitting a comment redownloads it to. Dozens of MB going down the pipes!

  4. Jason Clinton’s avatar

    Jason Clinton on June 22, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Dude, you haven’t released Firefox 3.5. Can we stop beating people up for not installing pre-release software? Jeez.

  5. Patrick’s avatar

    Patrick on June 22, 2009 at 10:05 am

    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… :(

  6. Richard’s avatar

    Richard on June 22, 2009 at 10:13 am

    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.

  7. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on June 22, 2009 at 10:22 am

    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?

  8. MacSlow’s avatar

    MacSlow on June 22, 2009 at 10:24 am

    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

  9. Richard’s avatar

    Richard on June 22, 2009 at 10:27 am

    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.

  10. Richard’s avatar

    Richard on June 22, 2009 at 10:38 am

    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.

  11. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on June 22, 2009 at 10:39 am

    @Richard – can you go into about:crashes and find a url for me for the crash?

  13. Dave Richards’s avatar

    Dave Richards on June 22, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    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.

  15. Michael Kozakewich’s avatar

    Michael Kozakewich on June 23, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    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?

  16. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on June 23, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Ogg Theora for video and Ogg Vorbis for audio. Also wav for audio, now that I think about it.