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Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by DavidHogue »

kintamanimatt wrote: post #113
theorique wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just because I had about a hundred tabs open That is a lot of tabs, though.

Not really, especially if you're doing a lot of research, or for whatever reason the page is particularly complex and it causes the process that tab is running under to consume a lot of memory.

I end up with quite a few tabs open myself. I find if I bookmark a tab, add it to Pocket, or copy the URL into my notes that I'm far more likely to go back and actually read it. Before I would keep tabs open for weeks "just in case".

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by roc »

roc wrote: post #102
srgseg wrote: post #56

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True, but this extension will help you distinguish between the tabs you want to close forever and the tabs you want to return to later.

So do bookmarks. And this overlap becomes obvious as people inevitably ask for Chrome or OneTab to allow them to cluster tabs by topic/project -- because a linear scan is never going to 'work' for people who leave enough tabs open that it becomes a 'problem'. The underlying problem here is workflow. People are leaving tabs open as a reminder of things to which they intend to return. (Regardless of whether they will o…

Thinking on this more, the cloud-stored cache would wind up eventually being a subset of google's whole-internet-database. From which you could run a pretty awesome search service.

Because it wouldn't consist of randomly spidered or submitted noise. It would only be things explicitly identified as useful or interesting.

And you could rank by how many people bookmarked it, when the bookmarks happened, who they are, etc -- alongside already-useful PageRank attributes.

It'd be like +1 data, but the +1 would have meaning behind it.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by adventured »

kintamanimatt wrote: post #113
theorique wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just because I had about a hundred tabs open That is a lot of tabs, though.

Not really, especially if you're doing a lot of research, or for whatever reason the page is particularly complex and it causes the process that tab is running under to consume a lot of memory.

No, a hundred tabs is still far beyond a lot.

If a hundred tabs is not really a lot, what would be? 250? 1,000?

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by un1xl0ser »

I don't care so much about the memory, but this reminds me of how chrome doesn't have a way of vertically showing the tabs. know that firefox when I use it supports that.

I saw support for vertical tabs in Chrome that can be turned on, but I think that is experimental. The people that suffer from the memory problems are the people who really just need better tab management features. Maybe this is something for power-users that just needs to be handled with extensions.

Also being able to suspend and resume sessions better is a good idea, and this may help with. When coding on a particular thing, I'll have most of the tabs open that I need. When I get back into it it's just a storm of CMND-T and searching for the references I was using. Sounds like this could help with that.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by andybak »

srgseg wrote: post #10

OneTab developer here: thanks for all your suggestions, I'll be working on them :) A few FAQs: 1. The OneTab tab persists even if you close your web browser. 2. If you ever close your OneTab tab, this doesn't lose your tabs. You can always get it back by clicking the blue extension icon. 3. Your tabs are never sent to our servers unless you press the button to 'share as a web page'.

In what scenarios can I lose my list?

What happens if I click it, close it's list tab, open some new tabs and click it again? Does the old list get overwritten? Is there any way to get it back?

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by jdangu »

rikkus wrote: post #98
srgseg wrote: post #86

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Not only does it save you memory, it also reduces CPU usage because Chrome would otherwise continue to run scripts in all of your open tabs. Depending on the complexity of the web pages, having 100 open tabs can easily cripple a brand new laptop with 8GB ram.

Having 100 open tabs would be unmanageable from a UI perspective. I can't deal with more than about 8 open at once, per window. I just bookmark stuff to come back to later if I'm dealing with more. So ... it's not a technical problem.

Did you try Ctrl-tab?

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by joshmlewis »

DennisP wrote: post #59
btown wrote: post #48

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I wouldn't be too quick to blame Chrome. What if each open background tab is running a computation/upload that requires the DOM? What if you're listening to music in the background? Point is, Chrome can't just arbitrarily decide to pause execution and free up memory for background tabs. Me, I'm a documentation-holic. I need to have all the references for whatever project I'm working on a single click away. Sometimes…

There are very few cases where I actually want tabs running in the background, and I'd be happy to add those cases to a whitelist in exchange for Chrome not eating my computer. But as long as no browser does that, OP's option looks like a huge timesaver for me.

But you're a power user, most users wouldn't want the hassle of adding sites to a whitelist.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by dkl »

andybak wrote: post #136
srgseg wrote: post #10

OneTab developer here: thanks for all your suggestions, I'll be working on them :) A few FAQs: 1. The OneTab tab persists even if you close your web browser. 2. If you ever close your OneTab tab, this doesn't lose your tabs. You can always get it back by clicking the blue extension icon. 3. Your tabs are never sent to our servers unless you press the button to 'share as a web page'.

In what scenarios can I lose my list? What happens if I click it, close it's list tab, open some new tabs and click it again? Does the old list get overwritten? Is there any way to get it back?

It's a pushdown stack of consolidated tabs.
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