Re:Site Isolation in Firefox
by cpeterso on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:29PM
(#27198099)
> I'm not sure what gave me the impression but, in my mind "process-per-tab" and "Electrolysis" were linked, but that was a misconception:
Your impression was mostly correct. Electrolysis is basically process-per-tab until you reach eight tabs, but after that, tabs start sharing those eight content processes.
Re:Site Isolation in Firefox
by cpeterso on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:02PM
(#27201080)
Correction to my earlier statement: the initial version of Electrolysis had just one content process (that could be sandboxed apart from the browser parent process), but was soon followed up with "e10s-multi" with multiple content processes.
Your impression was mostly correct. Electrolysis is basically process-per-tab until you reach eight tabs, but after that, tabs start sharing those eight content processes.