Mozilla Firefox 4 just arrived: where is Electrolysis?

Repne movsb · Mar 23, 2011

Yesterday the long awaited fourth version of Mozilla Firefox was publicly released and the Mozilla download counter already hit more than six millions of downloads in less than 24 hours. Mozilla Firefox 4 arrived a bit later than the other major competitors - Microsoft and Google - who already updated their relative browsers a couple weeks ago.
...cut...
The Firefox roadmap has been quite long, with the release of twelve beta builds and two release candidates. Today, Firefox is ready to fight against Chrome 10 and Internet Explorer 9 in the surfing performance, system performance, web page compatibility and user customization fields. Sadly, in the security field Firefox lacks of what in my opinion can be considered a really critical feature: a proactive security sandbox. By looking at the browser process architecture, it's easy to spot that Firefox inherited the old architecture of Firefox 3.x, without any major change.
...cut...
Sure, there are a huge number of Firefox extensions that could help the browser in mitigating exploit attacks, most notably the very effective NoScript extension. NoScript actively helps in preventing exploits from working because it acts as a script firewall, preventing scripts from unauthorized Web sites from loading. Though I must admit that it's hard to me thinking about the average Joe using NoScript extension.

I think that Firefox 4 is a great browser, totally able to compete with Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome. I would have like to have seen in Firefox 4 a sandbox-like approach like Chrome and Internet Explorer, that would definitely help users stay safe while surfing the web.
Click to expand...

http://www.prevx.com/blog/170/Mozilla-Firefox--just-arrived-where-is-Electrolysis.html

vasa1 · Mar 23, 2011

The real deal-breaker for me, however, is the difficulty of finding misbehaving tabs. The tab group feature makes it easy to navigate between dozens—or even hundreds—of tabs, but there are a lot of annoyances that crop up when you have that many tabs open.
Click to expand...

and

One of the major areas where Firefox is still lagging behind other browsers is its lack of support for process isolation—a feature that has significant implications for reliability and security. A Firefox pilot project for multiprocess browsing was launched under the codename Electrolysis in 2009, but it hasn't really progressed as rapidly as some had hoped.
Click to expand...

and

I discussed this issue with Mozilla VP Jay Sullivan during a phone briefing prior to the Firefox launch. He says that tab isolation probably won't be ready for Firefox 5 and will likely take a few cycles to get right.
Click to expand...

From:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/03/ars-reviews-firefox-4.ars/

So it still looks like a few versions away.

Log in or Sign up

Mozilla Firefox 4 just arrived: where is Electrolysis?

Repne movsb Registered Member

vasa1 Registered Member

Log in or Sign up

Mozilla Firefox 4 just arrived: where is Electrolysis?

Repne movsb Registered Member

vasa1 Registered Member

Useful Searches