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...
