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		matheusmoreira on Sept 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arena allocator tips and tricks So if my browser tries to allocate memory for a tab and the allocation fails it should just crash or block instead of handling the failure gracefully by not creating a new tab and telling me the system is running low on memory?

astrange on Sept 28, 2023 [–]

Tabs are separate processes in every modern browser.

Actually since you skipped all the less than a page stuff I'm not sure you actually understand what my post is about…?

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