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Loosely-Coupled IE (LCIE)
Wednesday 12th March, 2008 01:37 Comments: 1
The IEBlog has some interesting details about IE8's new architecture, Loosely-Coupled IE, which is a collection of internal architecture changes to Internet Explorer that improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the browser (although based on what I've seen, a lot of iexplore.exe processes seem to hang around long after the browser window has been closed). They've isolated the browser frame and its tabs and changed them to use asynchronous communication between components. The two main benefits for users: Low and Medium integrity tabs can reside in the same UI frame; Tabs are isolated from the frame. The former means you can have internet and local files open in the same browser window. The latter is important because a new feature called Automatic Crash Recovery uses tab isolation to recover from crashes. And I've already seen it in action:

Automatic Crash Recovery

Additionally, if you kill the iexplore.exe process and start IE again, it will ask you if you want to open up the tabs again.
Avatar Yamahito - Wednesday 12th March, 2008 09:29
I'm fascinated by the apparent change in Microsoft's attitude towards Open Source on the IE Blog; have they finally abandoned Embrace and Extend in order to play with other kids in the playground?
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