While the Electrolysis project will eventually make Firefox more stable and secure, it's worth noting that Chrome and even IE have worked this way for years now.The last few months it has become clear that AI is no longer our future, but our present. If all goes according to plan the early versions of this effort (that will separate the web content process from the Firefox UI process) should arrive by the end of the year. It also provides better security by sandboxing each tab. That means one tab crashing does not affect the rest of the browser. This effort, known as the Electrolysis project or "e10s" for short, will mean that each Firefox tab runs in a separate process. Given the current state of software in general, users have already become experts in disabling things.Īnother item in Camp's list of things that need to be Great or Dead is Firefox's transition to per-tab process. In other words, don't expect Pocket to be the last bundled deal Firefox pushes out, but in the future it will be easier to disable. fixing that for Pocket and any future partner integrations is one concrete piece of engineering work we need to get done." That said, Camp acknowledges: "Pocket should have been a bundled add-on that could have been more easily removed entirely from the browser. Partnerships like the one with Pocket help Mozilla stay afloat. Users wanted to know why a service that only a tiny fraction of Firefox users actually use was made a default, non-removable part of the browser. Top of that list, for many users, would be the Pocket integration that showed up recently amid much gnashing of users' teeth. "Where we can't get it to that state, we shouldn't do it at all." In other words, if it isn't great, it should go. "Every feature in the browser should be polished, functional, and a joy to use," writes Camp.
Perhaps the most encouraging big of Camp's email is the news that Mozilla has a new effort called "Great or Dead". In the first email Camp outlines three areas Mozilla intends to change, namely, less bloat in the browser, smarter, optional partnership integrations (making things like the Pocket integration optional) and more user-facing features, such as some upcoming improvements to Firefox's Private Browsing mode.
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