The Takeaway: Firefox may get multi-processing after all
Mainstream Firefox users may not see it until Novemeber, however. (The technology will be added to pre-release versions of Firefox first, likely showing up in the roughest "Aurora" build later later this month and in a more stable beta build in September.
"e10s is a priority for Mozilla's engineering management and they are dedicating more help to make it happen," said Chris Peterson, an engineering program manager with the open-source developer. Peterson's comments were posted to a Mozilla developer discussion forum in May.
Specifically, multi-processing in a browser:
Even as Mozilla pushes ahead with e10s, it may be backing off a pledge to release a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows. In the company's internal documentation for a 64-bit Firefox Mozilla is leaves open the door to killing off the effort. Mozilla released its first developer preview of a 64-bit Windows version of Firefox in March.
With reports from Gregg Keizer at Computerworld.