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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Good point. Also, the latest IE takes better advantage of multiple cores, and I think Chrome and Firefox do too.
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I think from memory Firefox is single threaded but now has multithreaded plugin instances which are in their own containers. Chrome is definitely multithreaded (believe first browser to be such?), and I further think you are right re: latest IE (v9). Thing to remember though is it is still for the OS to manage the handling of all those threads, but yes multicore (physical or virtual if you count things like hyper-threading) is normally a boon for multitasking, and more applications are taking advantage of it as time passes (some games, CAD etc.. programs). Though just as interesting is the offloading of some tasks to the GPU which has certain architectural affordances that give it an advantage in some areas - lots of untapped potential in our systems with hardware that is often ahead of software.