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Comment by adamdecaf | Hacker News Reader

There are two reasons why I use chromium (not Chrome) over Firefox.

     Chromium has true process separation.
     Chromium is faster for boot/page loads/JavaScript.

Splitting up plugins like this is chipping away at the first reason why I don't use Firefox. I would really like to use Fx, but chromium is just "better" for what I want in a browser.

Come on Firefox, win me back!

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I'm not well aware about chrome process separation. So please educate me.

I thought Chrome gives a separate process per each tab. So for example if flash crashes in a given page the whole page should crash. But in Firefox way this shouldn't happen. Am I wrong?

I only started to use chrome recently so I don't have much experience with it either.

Chrome has a process per tab and runs entirely separate processes for each plugin. So if flash crashes, the page does not crash. There is only one flash process serving the whole browser though, so if flash crashes, flash content on all open tabs stops working. The new Firefox plugin implementation works the same way.

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