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We take it for granted nowadays, but it used to be browsers ran single-threaded, so shenanigans in Javascript could take out the entire program.
by foobarian 5y ago
We take it for granted nowadays, but it used to be browsers ran single-threaded, so shenanigans in Javascript could take out the entire program.
- colejohnson66 5y agoIn fact, Chrome's original claim-to-fame was that each tab was its own process: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
- Doxin 5y agoI distinctly remember switching to chrome, because using stumbleupon in it would only crash the tab, and not the whole browser. Kinda crazy to think that websites crashing the browser were common enough back then for that to matter.