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lucian1900

Actually, Chrome does process-per-domain. Almost always several tabs of the same domain will share a process. You can check this by killing one process and seeing lots of tabs go away.

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No. We currently mostly do process-per-tab, but it gets complicated depending on how exactly a given window/tab was opened and certain resource heuristics. We're moving to process-per-origin[1], largely for the security improvement. But, that's been a huge, multi-year engineering effort that's only now approaching fruition.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/site-is...

I see.

So the reason more than one tab will crash when killing a process is that all those processes were sharing a resource of some sort?

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