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

Window objects - the small, drawable rectangular areas used to implement widgets, not what the user sees as a window - can perfectly be shared between processes, using shared memory or the X protocol. Check your toolkit's docs.