Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness

Published September 2, 2016

Cuddly Asian Red Panda or Lesser panda (Ailurus fulgens) chewing on leaves. Earlier this summer I wrote about Mozilla’s efforts to rollout a multi-process architecture, codename Electrolysis, for Firefox. In the months since, Mozilla has completed its initial tests on 1 percent of its user population and the initial numbers are good, according to Asa Dotzler, director of Firefox at Mozilla. The company is reporting a 400 percent improvement in… Read More