We also have the Gecko Media Plugin process type. It's not the same as Flash plugin process. There are at least one per origin doing EME and one shared by all users of WebRTC that need to encode/decode H.264.
The media playback team are also working on moving the code that interacts with the platforms' audio subsystem into its own process, but that project has only recently started. cpearce. On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 1:16:00 PM UTC+13, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > Hi, > > I want to understand all the different processes that we can and will have > in Firefox. Here's a list I constructed off the top of my head. > > - main process > > - content process(es): 1 on release for most users; 2 on Nightly > > - plugin process: just for Flash now? > > - gfx compositor process (bug 1264543, in Fx53) > > - file:// URL access process (bug 1147911, in Fx53) > > IIRC there was a proposal for a thumbnail generation process a while back > but judging by bug 1187441 that was scrapped. > > Do I have any of these details wrong? Have I missed any? > > Thanks. > > Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
