Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox

Re:Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from... by ck2 on Monday September 22, 2014 @07:50AM (#8350148)

Except in Firefox, at least for now, you can turn it off and make it monolithic again if that is your desire.

I've had too many stalled pages for my liking so I welcome this when it is finally stable and extensions catch up.

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Re:Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from... by blueskin_ on Monday September 22, 2014 @08:09AM (#8350201)

Great, now what happens when they do a google and stealth remove that feature?

(cf: The option to have the tab close button on the right, the status bar, the option to disable javascript, the option to have tabs in a sane place instead of on top...)

Somehow, I doubt disabling multiple processes will be within the scope of an addon.

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Re:Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from... by ck2 on Monday September 22, 2014 @08:17AM (#8350216)

You can switch to Palemoon, Waterfox, Cyberfox, or one of the other forks that still run all the extensions?

Firefox is not for lack of options, I'd say it is the *nix of the browser world.

ps. You can also solve all of the tab issues with TabMixPlus and the UI issues with ClassicThemeRestorer - my Firefox 33 looks virtually identical to Firefox 4

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Re:Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from... by blueskin_ on Monday September 22, 2014 @10:23AM (#8350643)

Yeah, I've already done that - Status4Evar, Classic Theme Restorer, Old Location Bar, Switch To Tab No More, Show Go!, etc. My point is I shouldn't need that many addons to get a normal browser out of the mess firefox is becoming.

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