Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox
Yay, now firefox can waste just as much memory as Chrome. Guess 1GB for the whole browser wasn't enough; they had to go for ~100MB/tab.<p>Got to keep up with Chrome after all.</s><p>If I use chrome for normal browsing (I don't normally because its feature set is poor, customisability is a dirty words, and I don't like the privacy risk), it can rapidly slurp 4GB or more of memory (with perhaps two key addons, adblock and DoNotTrackMe). Even firefox at its worst rarely if ever goes over 1.5GB, even with very heavy customisation and plenty of privacy/adblocking/etc addons.<p>>Performance would improve because the browser UI would not be affected by poor performance of content code (be it layout or JavaScript).<p>What about by the overhead from task switching hundreds of processes and mapping all the memory when each one takes up 50MB or more?