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Google Chrome tabs are separate Windows processes

Posted by ctitanic on September 2, 2008 – 1:28 pm
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google_chrome_tasksJKonTheRun has just posted a very interesting screen shot about how the new Google Web Browser is using the memory.

The first thing I checked with Google Chrome running multiple tabs is how it appears in the Windows Task Manager. Sure enough, each tab is its own separate process with resources allocated in Windows. According to the Google press conference, plugins running within those tabs will get another separate process. I can see an awful lot of Windows processes going at once with typical busy web sessions.

I still not sure if this is a good feature or not. In IE or Firefox if one of the tabs crashes the whole program crashes, in this case I’m not sure but if it crashes only that particular tab and the other tabs still good them it’s a good thing. 

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  • should be interesting to see if Chrome works more efficiently than FireFox and IE... if it's faster than Firefox, since isn't IE, then i'll use it
  • If you press Shift+Esc inside Chrome, you can see all the processes used by Chrome, memory and CPU consumption. You will find out that the Shockwave Flash Plug-in runs in a separate processes also.
  • Nick
    I tried yesterday and while it's nice and I like the fact that separating the taps to its own identity is pretty cool. Now the javascript is super fast but on some pages it loads them horribly slow. I definitely I like it but do we really need another browser in the market?
  • ilike google,Hopes to go beyond ie,But the test of time needed!
  • doogald
    According to design, one bad tab locks up that process, not all of them - and that is the reason that Google used this particular design.

    I played around with it a bit today, and noticed a few things:

    - no extended SSL feature (i.e., the green address bar that IE7 and FF3 suuport)

    - for flash heavy sites, there is no indication that anything is loading or that flash is processing - it just looks like nothing is happening

    But I really did not push it all that hard. There are some great features, though - it keeps track of which pages you open a lot and shows thumbnails of them when you start the browser or open a new tab, which I think is a great feature; the autocompletion in the address bar completes by domain first rather than any subpages, which is nice. It seemed pretty stable in the 45 minutes that I was using it. And it's very, very fast.
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