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Mozilla Lands Out-Of-Process Plugins in Firefox 3.7

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 5, 2010

“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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