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I remember the launch of Chrome. It wasn't that better. The process isolation was nice (especially for flash) but not earth shattering. Their marketing was good

by brmgb 6y ago

I remember the launch of Chrome. It wasn't that better. The process isolation was nice (especially for flash) but not earth shattering. Their marketing was good however (see the linked comics). The V8 javascript engine was the real deal however. It forced Mozilla to significantly invest in its own javascript engine.

jcranmer 6y ago
> The V8 javascript engine was the real deal however. It forced Mozilla to significantly invest in its own javascript engine. That's not entirely true. If memory serves me correctly, at the time V8 came out, Mozilla already had the TraceMonkey JIT implemented in Spidermonkey. However, the first version of Google Chrome (with V8) was released before the first version of Firefox with the new JIT.
cpeterso 6y ago
And tab process isolation was not a Chrome innovation. IE shipped tab process isospin first.
- cookiengineer 6y ago
  > IE shipped tab process isospin first IE shipped activex and jscript (MS scripting host) exploits first, too. Which made the whole tab isolation stuff useless.