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Re: chrome questions

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On 2011-06-07, Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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?
>

You could just choose "Open the Homepage" instead of "Reopen the pages that
were open last" (and then choose "new Tab page" as your homepage)

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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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