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Doesn't work with e10s (Electrolysis) -- multiprocess Firefox
Thumbnail Zoom Plus doesn't work in Firefox Nightly (35.0a1) with Electrolysis enabled. It gets error when initializing and the add-on doesn't work at all.
Mozilla bugzilla issue for TZP incompatibility: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1068406
More information about e10s:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
- http://timtaubert.de/blog/2011/08/firefox-electrolysis-101/
The related Firefox APIs changed in Firefox 17 and Firefox 19, though they've been around in some form since Firefox 4.
According to latest stats (11-8-2014), 89% of users are on Firefox 30 or higher (30..34). 96.5% are on Firefox 19 or higher. If we stopped supporting older than 19, 3.5% of users would be stuck on the old version until they upgrade Firefox, which may be acceptable.
About 2% are on versions 17 and 18.
Is there an ETA for e10s support? Because TZP is the last add-on that prevents me from enjoying it and currently, trying to do so results in a nagging "TZP might make Nightly running slow" bar at the bottom..
I suppose this is why in Firefox 49+ this is listed as one of the "[MultiprocessIncompatibleExtensions]"? One of 15 extensions I have. Using TZP 4.0 btw.
TZP 4.0 (and perhaps older) doesn't support "pure" multi-process firefox but should work in Multi-Process mode using compatibility shims. That means you should be able to enable multi-process, but will see warnings in the console (mostly about "Unsafe CPOW Usage"). And you can't turn off extensions.interposition.enabled in about:config .
Sorry for being late and unaware, but what is a "shim"? Any translation into my mother tongue don't seem fit.