Mozilla taps Google Chrome source code to bring multi-process plugins to Firefox

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Mozilla has been working on bringing multi-process plugins to Firefox for quite some time, and in the latest nightly trunk build it's finally arrived.

Yes, the same superpower which prevents Google Chrome from tanking entirely when a single plugin bites the dust are now built in to Firefox's core as well. In fact, it's built in using some of the open source Chromium code.

The feature is disabled by default for now, so to switch it on you'll have to head to your about:config and change the dom.ipc.plugins.enabled value to true. After you restart Minefield, pulling up task manager should show you that your plugins are now running in their own process.

It's not one-tab-per-process yet, but it's a start - and a sign that Mozilla fully intends to keep pace with Google Chrome.

Mozilla taps Google Chrome source code to bring multi-process plugins to Firefox originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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