Does the Google Chrome extension support multithreaded programming?

Question

Let's say I want to open a new stream every time I click a button in my extension, how can I do this?

I know that various tabs are handled by the chrome task manager, which treats each tab as a parallel process. Therefore, if the answer to my question is no, can we somehow use this task manager to have the same effect? Perhaps using some hidden tabs?

Answer 1

This can be achieved with the help of web workers: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/