In Dec 09, Mozilla talked about the ‘out of process plugins’ (OOP) architecture that could render plugins in Firefox as seperate processes making it easy to identify a malperforming plugin and end it using the task manager. Turns out, Mozilla is all set to release the Mozilla Developer Preview 3.7 alpha 2 (codenamed Lorentz), feature packed with OOP.
Yes, it is an alpha preview version which means it’s basically for testing purposes. However, I assume this feature will definitely be incorporated in Firefox 4 which is anticipated to be a grand superset of what Firefox is today.
The following screenshot, courtesy Mozilla Links, shows each plugin running as different processes by the name ‘mozilla-runtime.exe’.
Mozilla’s Benjamin Smedberg says,
When a plugin crashes, the Mozilla crash reporter kicks in and submits the crash report to Mozilla. Then we replace the plugin display with the crashed-plugin UI. When you reload the page, we restart the plugin process.
This is what the crashed-plugin UI mentioned by Benjamin looks like:
Neat! Isn’t it? Now before giving out the download link I’d like to mention it again that this is an Alpha version of the software which might contain bugs. So use at your own risk.
Download Mozilla Developer Preview 3.7 alpha 2 / ~ 8 MB
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