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Well, it's not the first true advance, but it's got tab processes and the Javascript engine (JIT compiler, I think it was) and some other new ideas.

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Yeah, sure. I didn't mean to imply that Chrome didn't have some cool stuff.

I really hope this tab-as-process thing catches on, or at least become something you can enable (right-click -> fork or something similar).

It's the way the main browsers are going. Firefox is still wrestling with it, as I understand it, because it adds more overhead for memory which is obviously something they were already fighting with.

Me too. That's the only feature I really want in Firefox, I think.

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