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		rockdoe on May 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Improving Firefox stability on Linux Couldn't it spin up another one from the old version by doing execve("/proc/self/exe", ...)? 99% of the Firefox code is in libxul.so, so you'd need to get the file handles from the original process or something similar.

account42 on May 21, 2021 [–]

They could have one pristine unused content process and then just fork new ones from that.

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