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Do other browsers have process isolation for new tabs?


Not necessarily for tabs on the same web site, but for different sites, yes. Hence "site isolation".


To be fair, this is (relatively, compared to the age of the web) new behavior though.

Even Chrome, which pioneered the "tab per process" model, didn't isolate same browsing group context sites for a long time, and still shares processes on Android as a resource optimization: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/p...

Firefox only released their "Project Fission" in 2021, i.e. three years after Spectre.




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