Mozilla’s serving up a beta of Firefox Lorentz, a version of the browser that runs Flash, Quicktime and Silverlight videos as a separate processes. If plugin-caused crashes and stuttering YouTubes have you red in the face, Lorentz offers sweet relief.
I’m one of those people who has upwards of a dozen tabs open at all times, and consequently I’ve just come to accept that watching YouTube videos in Firefox will be a lurching, lagging experience. But this morning I downloaded the Firefox Lorentz beta and was pleasantly surprised to find vastly improved video playback, even with a train of tabs open in the browser.
Firefox Lorentz runs Flash, Silverlight,and Quicktime videos as separate processes, like Google Chrome does. If one of those plug-ins crashes, it gets its own, isolated error message instead of taking your whole browser down with it. It’s available for PC, Mac and Linux, though it’s still in beta, so there’s always the chance that some issues could creep up on you. Still, for the few hours I’ve used it, so far, so, so good. [Firefox Lorentz via Lifehacker]
Dylan
Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 11:29 AMI completely agree with you mate, i had no clue that other people experianced the same problem as me with youtube videos in firefox. I thaught it was something to do with my machine rather than firefox, but when i saw that videos ran perfectly in chrome, i knew it was firefox. I will definately be downloading this beta – Thanks heaps