On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Charles Reis <cr...@chromium.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Scherkus
>> <scher...@chromium.org>wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> I would love to see this as an extension-- just like the graph that
>> Procexp.exe or the Windows Task Manager puts in the tray, only per tab in
>> the location bar (getting its data from the Chrome Task Manager). Is that
>> information available to extensions?
>>
>> On a grander scale, it would be great to also have a button to "suspend" a
>> renderer process if I'm not using it at the moment. I'm sure there's a ton
>> of complicated issues there, though-- it might suspend several seemingly
>> unrelated tabs, the page(s) may have network requests in progress, Flash or
>> a plugin could be to blame, etc, etc.
>>
>
> I could't imagine many users understanding a feature like this much less
> finding it particularly useful.
>
> What are the use cases?
>
Only power users, which is why I think such a button only belongs in an
extension. (Sorry if that part wasn't clear.)
Basically, I tend to have lots of tabs open, but I'm only using a small set
at any time. That means I often find myself annoyed that Gmail or other
CPU-heavy tabs are chewing up resources (or are making Hulu videos choppy)
while I'm not using them. I end up having to kill the CPU-heavy tabs, but
then I lose my context, as well as the visual reminder to get back to it
later. This button would let the user "pause" CPU-heavy tabs without losing
that context.
This is mainly a problem on my laptop, where battery life is also important.
Charlie
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>> Charlie
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>>> 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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