On 2/13/2014 7:33 PM, Bill McCloskey 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
What is the status of OMTC for other platforms? It seems that the
movement to get this to other platforms has stalled.
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