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Re:Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS S... by pcwalton on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:32PM (#5972207)
Firefox OS is multi-process like Chrome.

There is nothing technical in the browser engine that prevents Gecko from being multi-process; support for it is actually integrated quite deeply into the engine, more like WebKit2 than Chromium. The reason that Firefox isn't multi-process is purely an application-level issue, not an engine-level one.

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Re:Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS S... by lbenes on Monday July 01, 2013 @01:57PM (#5972410)
Exactly my point. I was talking about Mozilla diverting resources from FF Desktop to FF OS. As a result, their desktop browser has fallen behind "modern browsers" like IE and Chrome. It's lacking key features like multi-process and auto-updating.
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Re:Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS S... by pcwalton on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:32PM (#5973392)
No, what you wrote is "As a Mozillian can you please explain why Mozilla is wasting their resources trying to power budget phones with a bloated outdated browser?"

As I explained, the engine is not "bloated" or "outdated", at least in regards to multi-process or auto-update. Firefox OS uses the Gecko engine, but not the Firefox front end. The Gecko browser engine has full support for both of these features.

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