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The Fission team is standing by, ready to answer your questions in the [https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fission:mozilla.org #fission channel on Matrix].
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Revision as of 01:54, 31 May 2020

Fission is the 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. The primary motivation is to protect against side-channel attacks like Spectre and Meltdown.

Contact

The Fission team is standing by, ready to answer your questions in the #fission:mozilla.org room on Mozilla's Matrix server.

Reporting Bugs

To file a Fission bug in Bugzilla, click here to use this Fission bug template. Or file a bug and include the word “Fission” in the bug summary. The Fission team’s bug triage will find the bug, regardless of which Bugzilla component you file it in.

Known Issues

  • Warning: HTTP/HTTPS mixed content blocking does not work in Fission yet. (bug 1584157)
  • X Windows stability issues when opening many Flash tabs on Linux. bug 1129492
  • Some extensions might not work fully. But please file bugs for any of these issues!
  • Some DevTools issues debugging cross-origin iframes.
  • Some video player issues on YouTube and Twitch. (bug 1619370, bug 1620341)
  • Session restore does not restore page zoom level.
  • Cross-origin iframes will appear empty when printed.
  • Cross-origin iframes may occasionally appear in global history.

Enabling Fission

Fission is only supported in the Firefox Nightly channel and requires WebRender be enabled!

How to enable Fission:

  1. Enable the "fission.autostart" and "gfx.webrender.all" prefs in Nightly. Do not mess with any other "fission.*" or "gfx.webrender.*" prefs!
  2. Restart Nightly.
  3. Fission should now be enabled. To verify it's enabled, mouse over a tab and look for "[F]" (i.e. Fission) in the tab's tooltip popup.
  4. When Fission is enabled, you can open a non-Fission window using the "File > New Non-Fission Window" menu item. This is handy for testing whether a bug is specific to Fission or not.
  5. To disable Fission, reset the "fission.autostart" and "gfx.webrender.all" prefs to "false" and restart Nightly.

Milestones

Milestone Description Date
M1 OOP iframe framework 2019-02-28
M2 Semi-functional OOP iframe 2019-05-06
M3 Whistler All Hands demo 2019-06-26
M4 90% of mochitests are passing 2019-11-12
M4.1 100% of mochitests are passing TBD
M5 Fission is dogfoodable (internal Fx user testing) 2020 Q2
M6 Enable in Nightly on desktop (X% rollout) 2020
M7 Enable in Beta on desktop (X% rollout) 2020
MVP Enable in Release on desktop (X% rollout) TBD
- Start work on Android Fission ~2021

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