Add code to Firefox.

tobias3 · on Aug 5, 2016

You might be right. According to openhub Firefox had 1121 contributors last year. Compared to that Chromium had 1919 contributors. Not all of them work for Mozilla and Google respectively and not all employees commit to the code base...

forgotpwtomain · on Aug 5, 2016

> Add code to Firefox.

They just seem to be not very good at it, because from 40 -> 50 - memory usage is much worse than previous versions (Yes, I know switching to the MP model has to do with it, but if your architectural changes hurt usability for security I consider that quite poor), the developer tools are still trash, and performance is still worse than chrome.

mintplant · on Aug 5, 2016

> the developer tools are still trash

I quite like the Firefox devtools, but you may be happy to know that brand-new, rewritten devtools are currently coming down the pipeline.

There's also WebReplay, a time-traveling debugger for JS and the rest of the browser, which is a bit longer off but is absolutely amazing (I've seen a demonstration): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...

pcwalton · on Aug 6, 2016

> Yes, I know switching to the MP model has to do with it, but if your architectural changes hurt usability for security I consider that quite poor

Since you consider that "quite poor", can you share your proposed method for doing multiprocess without regressing memory usage?