Google Chrome and process-based design

[Sean Kelly]

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.


Sean