I would think that a "global stop button" throwing an alert and asking the user to "enable advanced features" would confuse the average user. I was thinking of a button on the upper right (near the wrench) and maybe have it be red with a giant "X"?
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Caleb Eggensperger <[email protected]>wrote: > > Also I remember a thread about a > > "stop all" button on chrome that would stop all script execution and halt > > the page, maybe something like that would be needed. > > I don't like this idea. It seems like it would be clutter on the UI. I > would prefer if there was some way to have a whitelist of trusted > sites. If a site tries to use {offline storage, desktop shortcuts, > plugins, external protocol handlers (maybe except mailto:), automatic > file downloads, ...} then ask the user if they want to "trust" the > site ("enable advanced features"?). That would take care of a very > large percentage of sites like this one and the one there was a thread > about earlier. > > > Incidentally, on Linux, all the page does is freezes and becomes > unclosable, either by close button or (chrome's) task manager. I had > to pick out the chrome process with highest CPU usage (excluding the > master process, which I assumed was the one with the lowest pid). > That, while not nearly as dramatic as the effects apparently are on > Windows, is still irritating. Can something be done about that aspect? > > -- > Caleb Eggensperger > http://calebegg.com/ > -- - Adam Shannon ( http://ashannon.us ) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
