Ghacks notes that Mozilla’s Electrolysis “e10s” project which brings multi-process to users will be released with Firefox 46 Stable release. According to test results gathered by Mozilla Platform Engineer Eric Rahm, users can expect Firefox to consume more memory under multi-process enabled versions of Firefox. Through the years, Mozilla has tried to control Firefox’s rampant use of memory through features like MemShrink, which slashed memory utilization by as much as 50 percent. However, if one goes by the recent tests, Mozilla’s effort to control RAM usage will come to naught if it enables multi-process browsing in Firefox.
