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Forum Question:
My most updated version of Firefox gives
the option of opening "non-e10s" windows.
What are they?
I found this article from a few years ago
that refers to them:
How to open non-e10s windows
What gives? Is one better than another?
Is there anyone on this site that uses them,
and if so, then why?
As always, thanks in advance, Kelikaku B'H.
[ANSWERED] What are Firefox's 'non-e10s windows'?
[ANSWERED] What are Firefox's 'non-e10s windows'?
Last edited by MrDuckGuy on Thu 12 Dec 2019, 18:12, edited 1 time in total.
Re: What are Firefox's 'non-e10s windows'?
Hello Burnie!Burn_IT wrote:... like forcing a multiprocessor CPU to
stick to using just one processor ...
Thanks for your participation!!
By the way, was that a question
or was it meant to be an answer
of some sort?
- Kelikaku B'H.
This is the basic difference and why.
From your posted article.
Starting and running Firefox is one process.
A tab in Firefox is a e10s window and a different separate process.
If that tab window crashes, only it crashes.
Firefox still stays unaffected and does not crash.
If the tab window is a non-e10s it is using the same process as Firefox.
If it crashes, it will probably crash also Firefox, because everything is in one process.
Why you would use a non-e10s window.
From your posted article.
Example:The main difference between a non-e10s window and the e10s window is that Firefox launches an e10s window in a new process (depending on how many processes are allowed in Firefox) while the non-e10s windows are launched using the existing Firefox process. As you can guess, if a non-e10s window crashes, it might also result in crashing the Firefox browser itself.
Starting and running Firefox is one process.
A tab in Firefox is a e10s window and a different separate process.
If that tab window crashes, only it crashes.
Firefox still stays unaffected and does not crash.
If the tab window is a non-e10s it is using the same process as Firefox.
If it crashes, it will probably crash also Firefox, because everything is in one process.
Why you would use a non-e10s window.
But as this is a new feature, some add-ons might not work readily with the e10s and would need an update. The updating of add-on depends entirely on the individual authors and could take months. In the meanwhile, if you want to use the e10s incompatible add-ons in Firefox, you may have to start a non-e10s window in which that add-on would work.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)