Very cool. Changing the preferences requires restart, I presume?
-- - Milan On 2014-02-13, at 20:33 , Bill McCloskey <wmcclos...@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
