Hi, What chrome needs is a noscript clone, so by default all js on the page would be stopped in its tracks.
On Aug 18, 6:49 pm, Adam Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
