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...