Browser Architecture

Multi-process Architecture

Modern browsers split work across separate OS processes — browser, renderer, GPU, network, and utility — so one crashed or busy tab can't take down the whole browser.

A frozen tab shows 'Page unresponsive' while your other tabs keep working.

Browser
Tab 1
Tab 2
GPU
One tab crashes; the rest live on

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