Google Chrome and process-based design

[Chris R. Miller]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> You already know that Google is making a buzz with their new Chrome
>> browser.
>> Go download and test it if you didn't do yet (www.google.com/chrome/,
>> Windows only for now).
>>
>> It is heavily multi-threaded and uses separate process for each
>> window, each tab, each plugin etc. When one tab hags or a plugin
>> crashes, nothing bad happens. The browser continues working as if
>> nothing changes. It even has a built-in process manager, try opening
>> youtube.com and killing a flash player plugin.
>>
>> You can read the whole story at www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
>>
>> This is an example of process-based designs implementation which is
>> what D2 aims at, and it is clearly a success.
> 
> It's probably worth mentioning that IE has offered an option to make
> each window its own process for as long as I can remember.  That said,
> the idea of rethinking browsers in general is a good one, if "web as a
> platform" is ever going to make headway.

Ehrm, I think that the Window as a Process feature is in Explorer only,
not Internet Explorer.  I quickly checked my Internet Explorer and
didn't find that feature (though I know it's there for just plain-old
Explorer).  Explorer isn't a web browser AFAIK, so IE really hasn't been
doing anything special along those lines.

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