On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:28:23 -0400 Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Thank you for the update and the references.
Welcome! Mozilla is working hard to keep Firefox as one of the most advanced browsers on the market. Personally, I am more than just sad, I am a little angry, that it has deprecated XUL and thus rendered all XUL addons obsolete. This move wasn't even synchronised with an ESR release, which would have been sensible and helpful. No, we customisers were cut off mid-release-cycle, which is why for now I have switched to Waterfox (Firefox ESR on my work machines). I am hoping either that Waterfox thrives with the renewed attention, or that Mozilla upgrades the WebExtension functionality and most XUL addons get ported across. Personally, one of the main reasons I used Firefox was its customisability. I have a vertical tab bar, merged with a vertical bookmarks bar, cross-browser bookmark sync, an enhanced downloads manager, a status bar, a downloads tab, and more. Almost none of this works in Firefox Quantum.
What I consider to be multiprocessing is complete process separation. Not just separate entries in the proc table but their own address space as well. For example, when I run Thunderbird and Dolphin. They may make calls toe shared libraries, send messages to the various layers of the X display via my desktop, but they are separate processes.
I suppose the ultimate definition of a separate process is 'can you run it on a physically separate machine?' Use SSH and IO redirection ...
AIUI the browser vendors' more pragmatic aim is simply to support multi-processor machines, so if the browser processors can run on separate CPUs, that's good enough.
Never the less, that's better than, as they say, a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
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