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What is keeping me from enabling the multi-process flag in Firefox Developer Edition? It is greyed out for me.
Last night I received a pop up message form Firefox Developer Edition telling me that multi-process is coming to Firefox Developer Edition and I can enable it early. If I tell that pop up to enable it and restart, the browser restarts, but the pop up returns. I remember enabling it when I first installed this awesome edition of Firefox, but now the check box within preferences is greyed out and I am unable to select it.
Is there a basic reason for why? I tried disabling all the addon's to see if that would have any effect, but there was no change from doing this.
What can I do to help track down why the option is unavailable?
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hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...
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Sorry about the double reply, character length limit required me to split the text.
I just noticed this line: "Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (Disabled by accessibility tools)" I don't remember specifically doing anything regarding "accessibility." Is this referring to tools within Firefox or Windows itself? :-?
M88ESIr দ্বারা পরিমিত
Just to follow up.
After seeing the statement regarding multi-process being disabled via accessibility tools, I found that the option for "Show a touch keyboard when necessary" had somehow been selected. I know I never wanted to select it, so it was either an accident on my part or maybe an add-on? Either way, deselecting it did not allow for the multi-process option to return. Even after a restart.
I moved over to Cyberfox for a while earlier this week since the multi-process flag really helps the performance of the browser on the older laptop I use. (i5 430m) Was thinking that if I reset Firefox Dev Edition back to defaults it would probably fix the problem but wouldn't tell me what the problem was.
I loaded the dev edition up yesterday to find that the multi-process flag was available and checked. I hadn't made any changes except for updating the browser with the daily security update. I'm happy but confused. Also noticed that for some reason the dev edition was not remembering my login credentials. Found today that the browser was set to not remember cookies, but I couldn't change that since it was also set to always use private browsing. I have no idea how these flags changed, I was able to change the privacy and cookie settings.
So far things are running good again. Unfortunately I am unable to explain why.
M88ESIr দ্বারা পরিমিত
thanks for following up & sorry, i lost track of your answers. you can also disable accessibility functions/detection in firefox like this (as they currently cause bugs with e10s): enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named accessibility.force_disabled. double-click it and change its value to 1.
Hello,
I've the same issue and with the last reply I cannot solve it.
I've checked that run firefox as root it is enabled. How could I fix it?