How can Google Chrome isolate tabs into separate processes while looking like a single application?

Question

We have been told that Google Chrome runs each tab in a separate process. Therefore a crash in one tab would not cause problems in the other tabs.

AFAIK, multi-proce

Answer 1

Most of the work of rendering a web page is figuring out where exactly things go (i.e. where to place each picture, what color to render each piece of text). That work is done in a separate process. Once the separate process has figured where everything goes, it passes that information on to the main Chrome process which draws all of the elements on the screen.

It isn't clear exactly how your video sdk system is setup. But you could have one process that decompresses the video and another process that renders it to the display. Most likely however, you are using opengl or DirectX. Those APIs smay impose some limitations on how you split things up among different processes.