I believe Firefox doesn't use one process per tab, but does use
multi-process on its own way.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 00:08 Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote:

> Yes, every modern browser uses a separate process per browser tab.
> Besides the
> mentioned Firefox and Chrome, Safari also does it.  So generally a page
> crash
> shouldn't affect anything but that page, or if a page consumes a lot of
> RAM or
> CPU, it can be independently killed by a regular system process manager.
> --
> Darren Duncan
>
> On 2019-07-29 8:02 p.m., Avin Kavish wrote:
> > Hey Mark,
> >
> > I find this hard to believe as chrome uses process isolation per site
> > <https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolation> by
> default. I
> > believe firefox does too
> > <
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox>.
>
> > Whenever a website crashes only that tab crashes. It will prompt you to
> recover
> > or kill that tab in isolation. I'm a web developer too and I sometimes
> let
> > infinite recursion get through in my apps but I usually end up being
> able to
> > kill the tab without affecting the rest of my work. Maybe the setting is
> turned
> > off on your pc, you can check here,
> chrome://flags/#site-isolation-trial-opt-out
> >
> > Regards,
> > Avin
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:01 AM Mark Murawski wrote:
> >
> >     Wow.. I go on vacation for a few days and I find this heated thread
> >     going full speed ahead!
> >
> >     Interesting history on why the removal of the 'native interface'
> occurred.
> >
> >     I do a lot of web work and routinely wind up with locked up or
> crashed
> >     browsers, so having pgadmin4 run in a browser tab is less than
> ideal..
> >     although sometimes I run firefox/chrome as another user to have some
> >     memory/process separation so that not ALL of my browsers die when
> >     chrome/firefox barfs up a big one.  I suppose I could maintain yet
> >     another user and make sure I start up pgadmin4 as that.
> >
> >     Would there be a possibility of embedding chromium?  Since of course
> >     it's actively developed and everyone including their pet cat are
> using
> >     it as a rendering engine these days (including microsoft)  Not sure
> of
> >     the compatibility with the BSD license would go...
>
>
>

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