r/softwaregore • u/jaktonik • 22h ago

chrome why can't you be normal

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u/TheOneTrueTrench 22h ago edited 9h ago

edit: I'm wrong, this is approvals for versions or something in MacOS? Has nothing to do with process isolation.

Because Chrome runs every tab in a separate process to fundamentally put a kernel-level gap between the tabs. That way one tab literally can't access data from another tab without breaking kernel protections in Ring-0.

The window itself talks to the various tabs using IPC or something similar, so that code in a tab can't get out and run amok in the browser or other tabs.

It's the right decision for security.

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u/transcendent 11h ago

That has nothing to do with this issue. These approvals are not per process.

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u/TheOneTrueTrench 9h ago

oh, I thought these were processes, is this MacOS? I don't know much outside of Linux

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u/mironicurse 11h ago

But isn't this particular dialog not for tabs but stale records of old versions of chrome?

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u/nonchip 16h ago

it is normal. that UI isn't.

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u/BBY256 R Tape loading error, 0:1 22h ago

  1. What is a Linux terminal emulator doing here

  2. What is gimp doing here

  3. What are you talking about

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u/Sacaldur 18h ago

This is not software gore...

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u/mefista 12h ago

kitty

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u/RendeZvous_987 22h ago

Probably this guy had real stroke.