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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:13:27 -0400
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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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