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IE8 can proactively close crashing tabs in Windows 7 RC
By Fabio on Wednesday May 6th 2009 05:24 | Category: Software
One of Internet Explorer 8's neatest (if somewhat familiar) features is its Google-Chrome-like ability to not let one faulty tab crash the whole browser. In the just-released Windows 7 Release Candidate, IE8 goes one further.
That is, the copy of IE8 found only in the Release Candidate has a "timer" that monitors new tabs as they open. If they aren't responsive within a relatively short amount of time, the browser will pop up and tell you this, possibly with a reason why, and ask whether you want to wait or kill the tab before it causes further problems.
What that does is make the idea of "tab isolation" a bit more practical. Now a faulty site or memory leak not only can't crash your browser session, but it won't gray it out and slow it down, either, while you're waiting for your computer to realize that some badly-scripted JavaScript ad is just killing things.
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