On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Drew Wilson <atwil...@chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to understand the current (and future) state of Profile support.
>
> Currently, SharedWorkers are shared by all windows in the system - any two
> windows under the same domain can do "new SharedWorker(url)" and get a
> reference to the same SharedWorker, and can use that worker to share data.
>
> I currently am special-casing incognito windows, so incognito windows don't
> share workers with non-incognito workers, but I don't do anything to deal
> with profiles in general (so if you were running with separate profiles,
> those profiles would see one another's workers).
>

That's definitely a bug if we ever really make use of profiles.  In general,
we have tried to honor the profile divide even if we don't surface profiles
in the UI.



>
> I'm trying to figure out the best way to address this (and whether this is
> something that needs to be addressed in the near term, given that we don't
> officially support profiles - it sounds like chromeos may make some use of
> them?). ResourceMessageFilter has a reference to a Profile object - are
> these Profile objects global (for example, in the typical situation of a
> single profile + incognito, are there only two Profile objects in the
> Browser process)?
>

A renderer process is merely assigned a Profile.  That way a renderer is
limited to only seeing the data of a single Profile.

-Darin



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