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Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by pilif »

ck2 wrote: post #10

Good bug to address but who allows Windows to power itself up and install updates unsupervised? Not a good idea.

Why not? Do you manually install the patches coming down every month? Do you put all of them through some validation? On your home machine? How are you doing this validation? I mean aside of installing a patch and uninstalling it when you come across an issue?

Having an unpatched windows machine is a way bigger risk than some patch not quite working right and by installing the updates when you are not in front of your machine, you don't risk either interrupting your work for the reboot or remain being unpatched pending the reboot you are postponing.

As the bug report makes a reference to both Netflix and sleeping, I would assume this is a home user, not a corporate one where the patches get reviewed quickly.

Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by benatkin »

canadev wrote: post #7

Firefox 'solves' this by only loading tabs that have been given the focus upon auto-restart. So, if you have 10 tabs opened, and your computer restarts and Firefox is opened, the only tab that will actually load is the one that was last active.

I don't like this. It just feels like Firefox is being lazy to me.

I notice I have to wait a second or two when I switch to another tab. This is annoying because I remember seeing the page load before I restarted. My subconscious doesn't realize that it was a different process.

I'd rather my browser and everything else involved work a little harder to give me the illusion that nothing has changed after I restart.

Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by mitchty »

ck2 wrote: post #10

Good bug to address but who allows Windows to power itself up and install updates unsupervised? Not a good idea.

Even if so, what would change about it if you were watching it? If the patch goes boom, does it matter if you were watching the process?

Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by calebegg »

timothya wrote: post #19

I run into similar situations whenever I restart my browser. All of the YouTube tabs I had open from before start playing simultaneously (at any given time I often have some tabs with videos paused, ready for me to watch later). It's quite distracting and takes some effort to find and stop them all. I think a good solution for both of our problems would be to not load any of the Flash content in a particular tab if t…

Safari implements your solution. Though I wonder if it would even help if their Netflix tab was the focused one; for that case, it would also have to wait for some user interaction or something, which seems messier.

Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by ashleyblackmore »

cvanderlinden wrote: post #17
ashleyblackmore wrote: post #16

"This is serious. Though it never occurred on my computer because I use neither Windows nor Chrome but I support this anyway in the name of humanity." In the name of humanity, wouldn't it be nice if people were in the habit of shutting their computers down, rather than letting them burn through electricity all night long?

Yeah well, we don't!

Excuse me, I couldn't hear you over my own goddamn tree-hugging self-righteousness! ^_^

Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by masklinn »

pilif wrote: post #21
ck2 wrote: post #10

Good bug to address but who allows Windows to power itself up and install updates unsupervised? Not a good idea.

Why not? Do you manually install the patches coming down every month? Do you put all of them through some validation? On your home machine? How are you doing this validation? I mean aside of installing a patch and uninstalling it when you come across an issue? Having an unpatched windows machine is a way bigger risk than some patch not quite working right and by installing the updates when you are not in front of you…

> Why not? Do you manually install the patches coming down every month?

yes, but that's so I control the moment of restart since I always have a bunch of transient stuff running, once I get the update alerts I can download & install then slowly wind down transient state until I'm ready to reboot the machine. That may take a day or 2.

Re: Issue 224182 - chromium - Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night

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Post by anigbrowl »

yanw wrote: post #12
anigbrowl wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I go to a lot of the same pages every day, so I very much want to continue whee I left off, but not necessarily to start playing media at once. you know what I'd love (all you enterprising Chrome plugin developers): let me view and manage my open tabs through the same sort of large icon interface that appears on the New Tab page. I wouldn't mind being able to organize my bookmarks that way either. I can't under…

You could also choose to make your plugins "click to play": chrome://settings/content#plug

I could, but would rather not have it like that all the time. Good point though.
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