It'd be nice to have a non-distracting visual indicator, but to play the
devil's advocate...
What about intentionally CPU intensive sites that use <canvas>, <video>,
WebGL?
What about scenarios where it's a plugin that's gone haywire?
Could this be accomplished by an extension that displays a little CPU graph?
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> We had also discussed putting icons indicating audio into tabs. That
> sounds crowded with icons, though: imaginably a game could have
> facicon, Unicode symbols, CPU load, audio, and the "x" displayed. I
> worry there just aren't enough pixels to display all the relevant
> information.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Glen Murphy <g...@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Something like yes! Maybe not a dialog, as I use things that peg my
> > CPU (games) somewhat frequently.
> >
> > One idea we toyed with was marking such tabs as 'on fire' (icon or
> > color), so at least there was a visual indication. I think this would
> > be a good starting point before anything more obtrusive like a dialog
> > or bar.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paweł Hajdan Jr.
> > <phajdan...@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> Just a while before one of my tabs (GMail) started using a lot of CPU
> time
> >> (67% while I was compiling in the background). The browser and the
> system
> >> were responsive at all times, but processing power was wasted.
> >> We have a warning dialog for hanged renderers offering to kill them.
> What do
> >> you think about a warning dialog for renderers consistently using a lot
> of
> >> CPU?
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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