Hi everyone, I just wanted to make a quick announcement about preference changes for out-of-process tabs. Bug 960783, which landed recently, added a "New OOP Window" menu option to open a new window with out-of-process tabs. Right now this option is only enabled on Macs because it requires OMTC, but it will move to other platforms as they get OMTC. It's also restricted to nightly.
This change required some reinterpretation of the existing browser.tabs.remote preference. We use this pref in a fair number of places, so I want to make sure that everyone understands how it works now. This is the new setup: If browser.tabs.remote = false, then remote (i.e., out of process) tabs are completely inaccessible. This is how we'll keep this feature disabled in non-nightly builds. If browser.tabs.remote = true and browser.tabs.remote.autostart = false, then browser windows will normally be in-process. However, the user will see a new menu option, "New OOP Window" that will open a window with remote tabs. This configuration is now the default in nightly on Macs. For non-OMTC platforms, browser.tabs.remote=false will remain the default. If browser.tabs.remote = true and browser.tabs.remote.autostart = true, then browser windows will normally have remote tabs. However, the user will see a new menu option, "New In-process Window" that will open a window with in-process tabs. This configuration is for people who want to test e10s more extensively. We're hoping that exposing the "New OOP Window" menu item will make it easier for people to test electrolysis. -Bill _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
