• Jamie@jamie.moe
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    1 year ago

    then Chrome came along and touted their multi-threaded, isolated memory model

    And the idea that one tab could crash but the rest of your browser still functioned was pretty revolutionary. I remember being impressed at the idea and using chrome for that alone. All it took was one page with misbehaving JavaScript to cripple your entire web browser back then until the browser offered you to stop the offending script.