ot: browser

[Josh Coffman]

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

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Charles Jones <
charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:

>  Nadim Hoque wrote:
>
>  Today Google released a new browser called Chrome (www.google.com/chrome).
> It is apparently open source or at least has open source components such as
> web kit and some Firefox things. Unfortunately it is windows only, but they
> are going to release it on Mac and Linux soon, they just want as many people
> to try it out. I am using it right now and it seems pretty good.
>
> I've been watching the development of Chrome with some interest. I don't
> think it will become a mainstream browser, but hopefully some of the ideas
> that they have implemented will be incorporated into other browsers. I think
> one of the best things they did, from both a performance and a security
> standpoint, was to make every tab, plugin, etc a seperate jailed process.
> This means that if something crashes, it doesn't hork the entire browser,
> just that tab. And if something running in a tab is hanging or using lots of
> resources, it can be throttled or at least you can now see what it causing
> it. And things running in tabs cannot access the memory space of other tabs
> or the entire browser. Also, since everything is a process, when you close a
> tab it completely frees up the memory it was using, so no memory leaks and
> fragmentation like you get with current browsers.
>
> Hmm that was more than one thing :)
>
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