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Eli

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What planet are you on? FireFox certainly does separate processes. How can you discuss this intelligently if you don't even know the basic facts?

 

Firefox does not have a multi-process architecture, except for Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime which are all sandboxed.

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Firefox does not have a multi-process architecture, except for Flash, Silverlight and QuickTime which are all sandboxed.

They run in a separate process just like Chrome. Chrome also separates the extensions and that's in Firefox's future plans.

 

Your talking in circles. Since FireFox 3.6 the plugins have run in a separate process. This is the path Chrome has taken and the result is an increase in memory usage. What are you talking about and what is your point?

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I'm talking about separating tabs, not only processes. This is what IE has been doing since IE 8.

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No FireFox doesn't do that yet and I never said it did. It's heading that way though. Chrome does it and it's memory hog.

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Well, Firefox can't (at least not on my system) release memory when you close a tab. Having a one-process-per-tab architecture fixes that, at the expense of using a bit more memory for each tab.

Besides, the only wasted RAM is unused RAM.

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