[chrismorgan]

It’s a misconception that Google fostered right from the start.

They did advertise Chrome as process-per-tab: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_04.html, pages 6 and 7 also definitely agree. (I haven’t read all through it again now, but I should also note that the process in the very centre of https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_38.html shows what appears to be two tabs under it, which supports it not necessarily being process-per-tab.)

But either it never actually was, or they abandoned it as impractical even before release (https://stackoverflow.com/q/42804 has answers agreeing it isn’t process-per-tab on the day after the first release). So either Google lied, or they released the comic including a glaring and rather significant factual error (even if it had been true when Scott first drew the pages).

It’s frustrating when parties pull these shenanigans, making big claims around things like security and performance predicated on points that are simply not true, but never retracting those points properly or repudiating them, so that the misconception persists.