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ForkServer coming to Firefox on Linux [video]

by binkHN on 2/11/25, 6:36 PM with 1 comments

  • by binkHN on 2/11/25, 6:36 PM

    > Firefox evolved over years from a single-process to a multi-process browser and while this brought nice improvements to the processing and latency, creating new processes has a cost both in time and in memory. This talk will introduce the solution that is coming to Linux and has already been enabled by default on Nightly for a few months: ForkServer, a process dedicated to making fork().