Google Chrome and process-based design

[Chris R. Miller]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Chris R. Miller wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Internet Explorer 8 has tabs-as-processes and windows as processes. 7-
> work like traditional browsers.

Interesting.  I hope they kept the memory use down.  I warmed up IE7
from a five-month period of inactivity and used Chrome to monitor its
memory use.  I opened up the same pages as I had in Chrome (with the
exception of the memory window) and found IE to use less memory by
almost 15 MB.  Then again, I had been using Chrome for a while, and it
was a fresh instance of IE.  But a 15MB disparity I didn't think I could
resolve by restarting Chrome.

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