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I was able to completely lock up my Mac with some odd combo of settings, had to quit Safari (after about 30 seconds of everything being dead). Didn't think that

I was able to completely lock up my Mac with some odd combo of settings, had to quit Safari (after about 30 seconds of everything being dead). Didn't think that was possible in a browser.

MeowMcLulz 7y ago
Oh it's very much possible. Threading, GPU, webassembly. Browsers are as desirable today for computing as the machine they are running on. You might be interested on an article I wrote a year ago which made a splash here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16509947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16509947