ot: browser

James Lee Bell nuclear-cowboy at cox.net
Tue Sep 2 22:44:52 MST 2008


Look at their little comic book and they explain that. Every tab is
supposed to be a different process by design, the idea being to sandbox
individual apps/streams from each other. The only thing that's not
sandboxed in that manner are their plugins, and they're looking for a
way to do them too.

Josh Coffman wrote:
> I was comparing the memory footprint of it, when I realized it was
> actually running across several process. At first it looked rather light
> weight at around 38meg private mem.  Then I noticed there was roughly
> one of those for each tab I had open.
> 
> It did seem quite responsive though.
> 
> -j



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