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Fission is Mozilla's project to implement Firefox site isolation: third-party iframes will be loaded in separate processes, safely sandboxed from the web page's content process.
Fission is Mozilla's project to implement Firefox site isolation. This introduces a major architecture change in Firefox such that a unique process is allocated for the main web page and for each unique third-party iframe embedded in it, thereby safely sandboxing them and further strengthening Firefox security.


= Contact =
= Contact =
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Fission is still in active development, and can only be enabled in Firefox Nightly.
Fission is still in active development, and can only be enabled in Firefox Nightly.


# Enable the ''"fission.autostart"'' pref in Nightly using ''about:config''. No need to mess with any other ''"fission.*"'' prefs.
# Enable the ''"fission.autostart"'' pref in Nightly using ''about:config''. No need to edit any other ''"fission.*"'' prefs.
# Restart Nightly.
# Restart Nightly.


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