Re:Firefox 12 will finally have a New Tab Page and Home Tab
by dlikhten on Friday January 27, 2012 @03:37PM
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It's a separate process for security reasons, and so crashes wont crash the browser. However the whole damn thing is more or less mutexed to hell.
The long timeout is there so freaken' farmvile works. But the whole browser freezes.
Plus they increased the timeout until it's recognised as crashed by about 10 times recently and it's absolutely awful now.