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What's the problem? The whole concept is that it's locking a resource super-globally, not only in the current tab, but across tabs.

Ah I misread. The intro made it sound like this was for locking within a tab, but it's within a origin.

How many layers of namespacing do you want in between? 1? 2? 10? Perhaps we should go the SNMP route and start with 1.3.6.1.4.1?

Using global for bad ideas is kind of par for the course for all things JavaScript.