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Javascript is parsed and executed on one core.


If you have just one tab, with a simple webpage with no iframe, yes. But this use-case is handled even by a first-gen Raspberry Pi.

Once you start having several tas open, or web pages with different iframes, modern browsers put those in different processes.




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