This is a topic to talk about the Activate Mozilla ‘e10s Compatibility and Featured Add-ons’ activity. The goal is ensuring add-ons compatibility with the latest browser technology, in this case e10s, so that it can be rolled out to more Firefox users.
I have just tried testing add-ons and the first thing I was noticed is that multiprocess becomes disabled every time after installation of some add-on.
Then I forced multiprocess by creating new Boolean string browser.tabs.remote.force-enable with Value =True in about:config
After that I can install any add-on and test it without removing it every time, when multiprocess becomes disabled again.
I am updating the results of the Featured Add-ons e10s compatibility sprint which I organised . More than 100 tests has been performed. 68 unique add-ons verified.
More details and participants names can be found in this blog
Initially, we planned for 3 hours sprint. As many contributors felt that theyt could not participate, we extended the sprint from 3 hours to the entire week i.e Oct 11 - Oct 16.
Update : As per the request of many contributors the sprint is extented to this weekend ( Oct 16th 2016 ) :) Happy Contributing
If you are seeing “multiprocess is disabled” in new profile or in the default one. This comment is about the steps to enable multiprocess.
STEPS -
go to about:config
Set browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true. (create a new boolean)
Set browser.tabs.remote.force-enable to true. (create a new boolean)
Restart your firefox and open that profile.
Bingo, You’re done. You’ll have to do this with every new profile you create or may be only once I’m not sure, because It worked for me by creating these variables only once, while some others had to create it separately on every profile.
My firefox version is 50.0b11 .
I created a new profile and installed the Add-on Compatibilty Reporter in the new profile. Then, I installed the add-on Bloody Vikings to test.
Now, when I go to about:addons, or click the add-on thumbnail at the top right corner of my screen, I see its written there **Multiprocess** is not enabled. . I’m attaching a screenshot for the reference. @TheOne
Actually, I was testing add-ons one at a time but when I saw multiprocess is not enabled. I installed another add-on just to test if the result changes (though It can’t change for that ,of’course) .
So, this time. I don’t know what weird thing happened.
I first disabled the ubuntu modifications in the default profile, then I created the new profile. Now, I saw that in the new profile Its automatically enabled so I disabled it again then restarted (as instructed) and open that profile again. It showed ‘Multiprocess is enabled’. Yeah… So, I thought to completely remove Ubuntu Modifications so that I wouldn’t have to disable and restart every time.
So, I used command sudo apt-get purge xul-ext-ubufox in my terminal to completely remove it. So, I see its removed now. Now I again created a new profile and installed Add-on Compatibility Reporter and an add-on in that new profile. But again I see It says there Multiprocess is not enabled.. In my default profile it says its enabled , I think Its because of those variables I added earlier. But in new profile all those variables don’t get auto-created. One more thing that this problem was also with the windows users(10,8,7). @TheOne