Is Browse really a multithreaded application?

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Once, in the discipline of Distributed Systems, the teacher asked a question and he himself answered:

What multithreaded application example is widely used by everyone? Browse (browser), since loading an HTML page, each element such as images, css, Avascripts, are loaded in parallel in several threads significantly reducing the time for full page load.

Some time later, I am studying web technologies, like Nodejs that uses the engine Chrome V8, Browse Google Chrome, and finding that this engine is single thread.

After all, Browse is actually a multithreaded application or this feature is special to Chrome?

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    I think you’re confusing the way a browser interprets a specific language with the way it makes the whole page yield. Chrome lets you see the threads inside the "task manager" itself that it has inside.

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    Each can do it one way. In the case of Chrome specifically, the way is to search for documentation or the source, as you have already done.

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