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.
