On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla@molden.no> wrote:
And Chrome uses one *process* for each tab, right?
Supposedly. If you click the wrench, then select Tools/Task Manager, it looks like there are actually several tabs/process (at least if you have enough tabs), but there can easily be several processes controlling separate tabs within the same window.
Is there a reason Chrome does not use one thread for each tab, such as security?
That too, but the reason they documented when introducing Chrome was for stability. I can say that Chrome often warns me that a selection of tabs[1] appears to be stopped, and asks if I want to kill them; it more often appears to freeze -- but switching to a different tab is usually effective in getting some response, while I wait the issue out. [1] Not sure if the selection is exactly equal to those handled by a single process, but it seems so. -jJ