CHAPTER 5Stability on the Net

In This Chapter

Consequences of a Crash

So Why Won’t It Crash?

Extra Precautions: You Can Never Be Too Safe

There’s No Little Black Box in the Browser

Weaving a Multithreaded Web

There’s really no such thing as stability on the Internet, nor is there a guarantee that your web browser won’t crash and burn. If you do any amount of surfing at all beyond just checking email, it won’t take too long before you overuse resources or finally open the wrong website, one that has some kind of error or problem on the back end that crashes your browser.

Chrome does, however, take steps to help minimize the hassles of when things go sour between your Internet connection and your web browser. There’s no such thing as ...

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