Yes, it is currently disabled by safe mode.

There is currently a checkbox in prefs to toggle it, in Nightly
builds. When it rides the trains, we'll have to re-evaluate that
tradeoff at various steps based on the quality level and testing
goals. In the long term it does not make sense to maintain that as a
user-exposed option.

Gavin

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Nicholas Nethercote
<n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> We started that with prompting users to opt-in to e10s
>> around a month ago and since then around 25% of Nightly users have been
>> running with e10s enabled. As we hoped this saw a surge in the number of
>> bugs filed and helped us understand the remaining issues more. Many many
>> bugs have been fixed since then and as of Tuesday nothing remaining looked
>> bad enough to block us turning this on more globally.
>
> 25% is pretty high! Knowing that, the decision to turn it on by
> default does not seem unreasonable.
>
> Thinking ahead: e10s is a big enough change that I suspect we'll see
> high levels of instability when it gets uplifted to Aurora and
> (especially) Beta. Not sure how to avoid that... but will there be an
> easy way to disable it? I think there should be a pref in the user
> prefs (i.e. not just about:config) because it sounds like a
> non-trivial fraction of users will have add-ons broken by it. And does
> safe mode disable it?
>
> Nick
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