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by bzbarsky 5097 days ago
I can't speak to the exact event loop behavior; I haven't tested it.

Even if you have only one main event loop per process, spinning nested event loops (e.g. the way Firefox does for alert and sync XHR) would let you do things in one tab while another is blocked on an alert or whatnot. I just don't know whether Chrome does that.