The Thread Manager, introduced in Firefox 3, offers an easy to use mechanism for creating threads and dispatching events to them for processing.
Only C++ code may use the thread manager and XPCOM thread. Application/Extension JavaScript should consider using a ChromeWorker instead.")
Interfaces
There are several interfaces that provide threading support:
nsIThreadManager- The Thread Manager itself lets you create threads.
nsIThread- The
nsIThreadinterface encapsulates an operating system thread, providing easy cross-platform access to multithreading in your code. nsIThreadPool- A thread pool provides a limited set of worker threads. When you dispatch an event to the pool, the pool selects an available worker thread to process the event.
nsIThreadInternal- A subclass of
nsIThreadthat is implemented by the XPCOM thread object to add support for observing dispatch activity on a thread. nsIThreadObserver- Provides the ability to monitor a thread, to receive notifications when events are dispatched to it and when they're finished being processed.
nsIThreadEventFilter- This interface is used by the
nsIThreadInternal.pushEventQueue()method innsIThreadInternalto allow event filtering. nsIRunnable- This interface is the base for all events/runnable objects which are dispatched to threads.