Google finally launched its new web browser called Chrome on Thursday. Chrome is suppose to have many nice features which redefine the way internet browsers work, or so does Google claim!
One such feature that Google seems to be very proud of is the way Chrome manages memory. Each new tab is a separate process in the memory and hence if something goes wrong in 1 tab then others are not affected by the abrupt fatal error.
Although very useful but sadly nothing new. This feature has been available in Windows XP from day 1. All you need to do is go to
Windows Explorer –> Tools –> Folder Options –> View –> enable the option “Launch folder windows in a separate process” –> Apply
Now each new IE window you open, will show as a new process in the Task Manager.
Even better, the Tabs in the same window will be clubbed together as 1 process so you don’t land up with just too many processes.
This way if one window crashes then at least you can hope not to loose your work in other IE windows.
Another advantage of this feature is, suppose you have two yahoo/gmail/etc accounts, you can access both simultaneously in different windows. Since both windows will correspond to different processes thus having different memory space, the login sessions will be independent of each other thus allowing you to login with multiple ids at the same time. Just remember not to check "Keep me signed in".
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