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		bgorman on June 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-b... Firefox, Opera and IE7 had tabbed browsing years before Chrome was released.

caymanjim on June 9, 2019 [–]

Chrome was the first to give each tab its own thread, which helped prevent rogue pages from bringing the whole browser down (not completely, but it was a dramatic improvement).

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