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		redthrowaway on March 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The death of Firefox >When a site freezes the rest is unaffected. Interestingly, however, when Flash crashes on one tab it crashes on all of them.

cpeterso on March 19, 2012 | [–]

Chrome has just one plugin process. All tab processes share the same plugin process, so if one Flash crash will take all Flash.

epochwolf on March 19, 2012 | [–]

That's because flash is a single process in all tabs. It's more of a problem with the way flash is designed.

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