Re: Necko e10s specs

Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Organization Mozilla Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/09/09 1:40 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 2) window.close() is called. This is in fact sync and the caller just
> needs to be the opener of the window; the page in the window might be
> from a different domain now. This is moderately annoying. Then again,
> they're already "same domain" for multi-process purposes in that one has
> a direct pointer to the window of the other, no?

Things get a lot more complicated if the storage mutex is not really 
per-domain.

If the success or failure of the close operation is not visible to the 
caller, can we make close() async for cross-domain calls? Or just make 
it async always?

Rob
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