- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 06:57:39 +0300
FWIW, iirc multiple processes from IE dates to at least IE4 The best url I can find on the subject atm is <http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/bit092098.html>. Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com> wrote: > There are additional constraints that haven't been mentioned yet... Plugins. > The current model for plugins is that they execute in a single-threaded > world. Chrome maintains that model by hosting each plugin in its own process > and RPC'ing method invocations back and forth between calling pages and the > plugin instances. All plugin instances (of a given plugin) reside on the > same thread. Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org> wrote: > Why can't instances of a plugin in different browser contexts be hosted > in separate processes? Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com> wrote: > It would be expensive, and i think has this would have some correctness > issues too depending on the plugin. Some plugins depend on instances knowing > about each other and interoperating with each other out of band of DOM based > means doing so. Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com> wrote: > And others probably assume they have exclusive access to mutable plugin > resources on disk. This seems unlikely. I can run Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE, Opera, and others browsers at the same time, heck I can run multiple profiles of a couple of these (I can't find the option in the current version of Chrome, but I used it before).
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