Firefox Minute: What's multi-process Firefox (Electrolysis)?

Firefox Senior Product Manager Asa Dotzler talks about what to expect for the upcoming release of Firefox and why consumers should care and download the latest version now. Learn more: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/13/faster-better-firefox/

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Multi-process Firefox

is an architectural change that sets us up

for some exciting changes

coming in the future
with Project Quantum.

It makes everything faster,

less likely to crash
and when it does crash

recovery is much easier

and lays the foundation
for security improvements

coming with sandboxing.

Right right right.

If you think about
the children's Goldilocks story,

you can be too cool,
you can be too hot

or you can be just right.

The porridge is too hot.

For example, Chrome uses a process
for every site you visit,

which can use too much
of your system resources

bringing your computer to a crawl.

If you're using too few processes,

the porridge is cold.

Firefox started off
with one content process

and that was a little bit cool.

it didn't give us the performance

and the isolation we were looking for.

We've balanced with four processes

that we think is just right,

which uses more memory than one process

but not so much as to get out of control

and slow down your entire system.

Project Quantum is going to make Firefox

silky smooth and super fast.

I'm done.

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