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Door staff@engadget.com (Nimrod Aldea) - 25 Oct 2026
By giving each website its own dedicated process inside the computer's memory, Chrome doesn't just make sure your browsing stays fast and responsive. It also prevents browser-wide crashes. Anyone old enough to remember the early days of web browsing probably remembers the terrible feeling when your browser suddenly disappeared along with all of your work, while you were left staring at a small system message telling you the browser had encountered a problem and had to shut down.
Browsers today avoid this problem by keeping each site in its own process. One crashed site does not bring down the entire browser, along with the 20+ other tabs you had open. This approach also helps with security. Chrome runs each site in a sandboxed process, and the operating system keeps those processes apart, so a malicious page can't easily peek at what's happening in your banking or email tab. Some of that extra memory is the price of that wall between your tabs, and it's a price most people would be glad to pay.
Browsers today avoid this problem by keeping each site in its own process. One crashed site does not bring down the entire browser, along with the 20+ other tabs you had open. This approach also helps with security. Chrome runs each site in a sandboxed process, and the operating system keeps those processes apart, so a malicious page can't easily peek at what's happening in your banking or email tab. Some of that extra memory is the price of that wall between your tabs, and it's a price most people would be glad to pay.