Mozilla Lands Out-Of-Process Plugins in Firefox 3.7

Mar 05, 2010, 14:32 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

"One of the big things that Google Chrome introduced is the idea of out of process plugins. It's something that has now (finally!) landed in Mozilla -- albeit in the Alpha 2 release of Firefox 3.7 (officially called Mozilla Developer Preview 3.7 Alpha 2).

"When I visited Mozilla Toronto back in January, Mike Beltzner Director of Firefox explained to me what the big deal was with out-process-plugins (read the linked story for full details)."

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