When Google released their own browser version called Chrome, I recall it was mentioned that the browser used a feature called ’sandbox’, which in theory, had each tab running on its own. The theory also was when a web site crashed, it would not take down the entire browser. I didn’t give this much thought until today.

I have been playing with Chrome while running Firefox as well. I was trying to access a site in Firefox that would not come up. I than noticed that Firefox had froze. I couldn’t do a thing with it. So I opened up Chrome and purposely went to the same site, in a new tab. The site also froze while loading. But there was one huge difference. Chrome allowed me to close the tab and continue working.

I could not force Firefox closed. I even tried to restart and shutdown. Nope. Nothing. I forced a reboot to close Firefox and started again.

There has been much criticism of Chrome and its lack of features. But this one feature should be included in both IE and Firefox. The ’sandbox’ feature is extremely helpful and would of saved me about 10 minutes in shutdown and rebooting. Not only that, since cloud computing is on the horizon, I could of lost my work if I were using a online application. Google took this into account when they built this feature into Chrome.

Comments welcome.