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		notimetorelax on Nov 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL charac... Even Chrome reuses processes for child tabs. As far as I remember it is done to allow JavaScript to access child window from parent.

bconway on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

Which, to me, is one of its biggest annoyances. Opening a slew of tabs from a Google Reader page results in very clear resource contention (one of 8 CPUs pegged at 100% and nothing moving, etc).

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