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Since it was first released, one of the Google Chrome browser's claims to fame has been how it splits the work of displaying web pages and running web applications among multiple processes. This makes the browser more stable, and increases performance. Mozilla's Benjamin Smedberg put up a post last month on Electrolysis, an effort at Mozilla to allow the Firefox browser to take advantage of multiple processes. Smedberg confirms there that Mozilla has been looking at this challenge since before Chrome arrived. As Ars Technica reports, multiple processes are indeed coming to Firefox, and should make it more stable and more secure. And that's not all that's coming.

It may not be perfectly stable yet, but if you've been following along with the beta releases of Mozilla's Firefox 3.1 browser, you can now get and test the candidate for Beta 3, as described here. Mozilla is calling for a Test Week for this latest version. Beta 3 was scheduled to be out on February 2nd, but bug fixes were required. Meanwhile, PC Pro has an interesting story up in which Firefox architect Mike Connor describes plans for version 3.2 of Firefox.