Re: Thunderbird just became a multi-process application

WaltS48 <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:19:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/30/21 1:00 AM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
> 
>     What has actually changed?
> 
>   * When Thunderbird loads a web page in the message pane (such as the
>     home page), or in a tab, or in a window, that will be done by a
>     secondary "child" process, not the main Thunderbird process as was
>     previously the case.
>   * Transitioning from a web page to a message, or vice versa, has
>     become more complicated, but this is handled automatically.
>   * Extensions are now loaded in child processes.
> 
> 
>     What does this mean for me?
> 
> Absolutely nothing because people of low intelligence won't notice 
> anything what is happening in the background
> 
> Source: Google Groups 
> <https://groups.google.com/g/tb-planning/c/p4MUTMNYBVo?pli=1>

The actual quote is:

"What does this mean for me?

End-users:

Users should not notice any changes. This change is entirely in the 
background and shouldn't make any difference to what the user interface 
does."

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