Mozilla Plans to Borrow Multi Process Architecture From Chromium For Firefox

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Mozilla Firefox is one known name in browser category. However one big issue with Firefox is memory leaks which make it big memory hogging application. Mozilla team has been continuously working on Firefox to make it feature rich, stable as well as improving performance.

It seems finally Mozilla wants to address Firefox Memory consumption issue once for all. Mozilla team has initiated one project “Content Process”, to separate processes to display the browser UI and web content some what similar to Google Chrome process.

Following are the Goals of this new Project

1. Provide better application UI responsiveness

2. Improve stability from slow rendering or crashes caused by content

3. Improve performance, especially on multi-core machines

From loose roadmap published, Content Process is expected to develop initial interactions between the two process types (chrome and content), and is aimed for November. At first glance this project seems very long and we many not see any end product of this project before end of this year.

Mozilla team also considering replacing Gecko engine with Chromium networking stack as a possible alternative which can considerably speed up this project. Chromium is on open source project on which Google Chrome is based on.

Source : Mozillalinks