On 04/22/2011 06:17 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: <>
Without nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in the same process as
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With nspluginwrapper, Firefox plugins run in separate processes.
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ahhh. yes. you refreshed the brain cells. [should stick this time] this was discussed in a 'support-firefox@lists.mozilla.org' thread last year.
Presumably, this also means that the plugins can run on separate hardware threads¹: whether this makes any difference to browser responsiveness is something I have neither investigated nor seen anyone else investigate.
one would think so. this ability was not discussed.