Seems likely, I recall markh mentioning something similar - adblock probably doesn't work in the content process.
Gavin On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Jeff Gilbert <jgilb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Could this be why I'm starting to see banner ads in some of my newtab-page > snapshots, despite never seeing them in a tab? I don't appear to see this > on an old nightly24 snapshot I have lying around. > > -Jeff > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gavin Sharp" <ga...@gavinsharp.com> > To: "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> > Cc: "firefox-dev" <firefox-...@mozilla.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:10:34 PM > Subject: reminder: content processes (e10s) are now used by desktop Firefox > > I've mentioned this at the engineering meeting, but thought it worth a note > here just to ensure everyone is aware: > > Bug 870100 enabled use of the background thumbnail service in Firefox > desktop, which uses a <browser remote=true> to do thumbnailing of pages in > the background. > > That means that desktop Firefox now makes use of E10S content processes. > They have a short life time (one page load) and are generally triggered by > opening about:newtab when thumbnails are missing or out of date (>2 days > old). > > This has exposed some e10s crashes that previously weren't exposed on > desktop. I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899758 to > track them - please hang any other such crashes off that bug. If you're > working in a component that has e10s-related crashes, please fix them :) > > (Bug 891218 is also planning to make use of content processes for some > Social-related functionality. Those remote processes will be longer-lived, > typically having the same lifetime as the parent process.) > > Gavin > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
