FinanceTechNews.com » feature http://www.financetechnews.com Top technology for your bottom line Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Firefox to get multi-threading http://www.financetechnews.com/firefox-to-get-multi-threading/ http://www.financetechnews.com/firefox-to-get-multi-threading/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 20:07:34 +0000 Valerie Helmbreck http://www.financetechnews.com/?p=1809 Just when you thought Mozilla had run out of useful features for its Firefox browser, along comes a new one:

Multithreading.

Their developers have announced plans to add application multi-threading to Firefox over the next two years, a feature already partially enabled in its main rivals, IE8 and Google Chrome.

Along with letting the software take advantage of multi-core microprocessors to boost responsiveness, the new feature would also improve browser stability, the company said in a news blog.

The unnamed project will happen in several phases, with the phase one ‘bootstrap’ due to be complete by the middle of this July. Further phases will add and debug more complex elements of the new browser, with phase two due to be complete by November.

No timescale is given for the phases beyond that point in time, which suggests that multi-threading Firefox could turn out to be a project that takes well into next year to finish.

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