Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S

Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by wjoe on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:35AM (#11853729)

Any reason why it won't be enabled for people using extensions? This makes me worry that there's some significant incompatibility with extensions, and that when they do enable it for everyone, it'll break some of the extensions I use. I suspect that splitting the UI and content into multiple processes would make certain things very difficult.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by thristian on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:45AM (#11853768)

It is exactly that. Some extensions (it used to be "many extensions" before E10S was enabled on the Nightly and Aurora channels) assume that they can call back and forth between page content and browser chrome, which is easy when they're all JS objects in the same memory space, but which doesn't work nearly as well between processes.

It might be worth downloading Firefox Developer Edition (which uses a separate profile) and installing your usual suite of extensions to check they all still work.

The only extension I personally know is weird under E10S is "It's All Text", where the edit button doesn't appear on textareas until you switch to a different tab and back. Other extensions like uBlock Origin, Tree Style Tabs, Open In Browser, HTTPS Everywhere, Document Font Toggle all work fine.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by yoklov on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:48AM (#11854449)

A big one that's problematic is LastPass. It can hang the browser for a long time, 10+ seconds or so. Very annoying.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by johnp_ on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:20PM (#11857015)

Please try out the development version of lastpass, as most of the e10s compatibility work has gone into that:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by igravious on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @05:23PM (#11857984)

Is there an e10s_okay extension or should I just run ff dev ed. and see what happens?

I'm running:

    Lastpass
    uBlock
    Zotero

I have others but I'd ditch them. I'm not keen at all on giving up the three above.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by Twirrim on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:48AM (#11854453)

> "It's All Text"

I hope that gets fixed. That's one of the most useful extensions I have installed, and about the first thing I install when starting afresh in Firefox.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by zeemonkee3 on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:52AM (#11854887)

How about vimperator? Vimfx is OK as a stop-gap but that's one extension I wouldn't want to lose permanently.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by cpeterso on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:49PM (#11855730)

Here is the Firefox bug report for Vimperator don't working with e10s:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100918

The Vimperator developers are working on it here:

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/211

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by saidajigumi on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:52PM (#11855759)

Nope, vimperator doesn't work under e10s at the moment. See the tracking issue here:

https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/211

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by crc32 on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:39AM (#11853752)

Extensions that access stuff that "lives" in the content process can be rewritten or shimmed; but this hasn't been finished yet for all extensions. There's a list of extension status here: https://www.arewee10syet.com/

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by chuckharmston on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:11AM (#11854618)

You can check the compatibility of popular add-ons here: https://www.arewee10syet.com/

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by mtgx on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @08:55AM (#11854109)

They've said that for a long time. It's why they are moving to WebExtensions.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/firefox-improves-security-n...

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by Steuard on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:40AM (#11854784)

Evidently there are still a few lingering problems with NoScript (which appears to be the most popular extension not currently marked as compatible, according to https://www.arewee10syet.com/). That one's a big deal for me, so I may hold off on enabling electrolysis for now.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by mariuolo on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:22AM (#11861691)

That's why Webextensions is coming out.

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