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Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance


Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience

Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win. It appears to be reliable and the most important aspect for end-users is the performance wins with base resident memory around 50% lower and the content process startup is reduced by around 35%.

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