![]() Modern browsers split the load into several independent processes. Translation? The old Firefox used a single process to run all the tabs in a browser. To make Firefox run even complex sites faster, we’ve been changing it to run using multiple operating system processes. That often meant a less than perfect browsing experience. Up until now, a complex site in one Firefox tab could slow down all the others. The average website today is nearly 2.5 megabytes – the same size as the original version of the game Doom, according to Wired. And the sites and web apps running in those tabs often have lots of things going on– animations, videos, big pictures and more. On the Firefox team, one thing we always hear from our users is that they rely on the web for complex tasks like trip planning and shopping comparisons. With E10s, our new version of Firefox nails the “just right” balance between memory and speed ![]()
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