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chrome questions

From	ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar)
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.networking
Subject	chrome questions
Date	2011-06-07 11:13 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<npr1c8-fbv.ln1@pc.home> (permalink)

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I run two browsers, Firefox 3.6.13 and Chrome 10.0.648.82 dev.  I use
Firefox if a site doesn't deal well with Chrome -- in the last few days,
that's eBay.  Also if I need to scope out Javascript permissions, that's
much easier in FF.  But C wins hand down for memory management and CPU
use.

However, Chrome takes forever and a day to start up, because it tries to
refresh every tab at once, and there's not enough memory for that (I'm 
maxed out at 8 GiB).  Chrome trying though, makes the system thrash like 
crazy and drives the load up over 20.  The system becomes unusable, 
taking several minutes to respond to a keypress.  It takes 30-40 minutes 
to resume normalcy.  I've thought of several solutions (listed in order 
of preference), but I don't know if any of them are possible.
 
1. Chrome postpones loading further tabs until the load drops below
   (say) 4.

2. Each tab loads with a random delay, say between 0 and 120
   seconds.

3. Chrome crashes all tabs, replacing the contents with the "Oh
   snap!  Something went wrong while displaying this webpage." message,
   and only loads it when I hit F5.  Chrome doesn't have a "Refresh all
   tabs" command, so this would either take a while or be an "as needed"
   procedure.

Any ideas?

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chrome questions ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-06-07 11:13 -0400
  Re: chrome questions Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-06-07 16:41 +0100
    Re: chrome questions ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-06-07 12:19 -0400
      Re: chrome questions Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-06-07 19:17 +0100
  Re: chrome questions Tobias Blass <tobiasblass@gmx.net> - 2011-06-07 17:09 +0000
    Re: chrome questions ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-06-07 14:49 -0400
  Re: chrome questions ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2011-06-07 17:37 -0400
  Re: chrome questions Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-06-08 16:59 +0000

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