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Much awaited feature multi-process for plug-ins is now live in developer preview release of Mozilla Firefox. This will make Mozilla browsers safe from annoying plug-in crash, which results into browser crashing.

Google Chrome already has this multi process feature, which makes it possible to run separate execution processes for different browser windows, plug-ins and add-ons. Hence, whenever one component crashes – it does not affect performance of other components. Firefox is yet to integrate this essential feature.

Mozilla developer Benjamin Smedberg explains this feature, Out-of-Process Plugins, in a blogpost:

On Windows and Linux, plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted. [ … ]

The plug-in process can be monitored in the Windows task manager, where it will appear as mozilla-runtime.exe (mozilla-runtime on Linux operating system).

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