Re: window/tab/plugin process isolation

[pedro mg <pedro tquadrado com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:30:48PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Google's windows browser "Chrome" has an architecture whereby each individual
> tab and window is running in a separate OS process. A side-effect of this
> architecture is they can support moving frames between tabs within a window and
> separate windows, much like older epiphany releases.
> 
> Are there any plans for this in epiphany, and if not, would they be considered?

this was one of my favourite Epiphany features. I use it for years as my
main browser, and for self organization reasons, I used to move tabs
into new epiphany windows. Like Gnome-Terminal still does. 

My experience is that every user I presented Epiphany to, became an
epiphany addict.

> 
> I currently use ephy 2.22 as my main browser and I plan to follow epiphany past
> the gecko migration and into webkit territory. I am finding however that I
> suffer increasingly frequent crashes. I usually have *a* flash plugin present
> (either adobe or sometimes swfdec or gnash), and I often reckon it's that which
> is at fault. Ephy session management makes this a lot less painful than it
> would be otherwise but it's still massively frustrating.
> 
> Apologies if I'm covering old ground. I've scanned over the archives of thie
> list in my mailbox and checked live.gnome.org for a roadmap + read the latest
> meeting minutes and my question remains.

-- 
pedro mg
http://blog.tquadrado.com