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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 com2kid »

benatkin wrote: post #22
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.

I much prefer this solution. As someone who can have over 100 tabs open with potentially a dozen YouTube tabs amongst them, having to hunt down all the YouTube tabs after a browser restart is a serious pain!

Also frequently FireFox crashes for me are due to it hitting the 4GB memory limit (well closer to 2GB obviously), so restoring all tabs would just result in Firefox crashing again. Restoring them piece meal lets me close down ones I do not need, thus allowing me to get FF's memory usage down to acceptable size.

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

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Post by kokey »

Last year I was woken up in the middle of the night by my girlfriend, who was terrified by a voice that seems to come from the lounge. I got up, opened the door, and there was a bright white light. My girlfriend was even more terrified since she could only see me and the light shining on me from the lounge. It was the television. It turns out that when we were channel surfing earlier in the evening, we switched to a channel that wasn't broadcasting anything, got distracted, and the television goes into sleep mode after a while when it's on such a channel. At 3am they started broadcasting some video loop, basically of a white background with a little text, and a woman's voice announcing something.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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

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Post by tomelders »

I absolutely despise this trend of having software open stuff up automatically as if it's somehow helping. OS X is the biggest offender, for example; when Photoshop decides to just freak out opening a file, so you close photoshop, then reopen and it tries to reopen all your old files, including the one that's causing the problems. What sort of sadist wants 10 PSDs to open all at once?

I miss the good old days when you could reboot your machine and everything was fresh and pristine and yours to mess up.

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

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Post by recoil »

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…

My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to watch one of the videos, just reloading the page is enough to kick Flash back into gear.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

halfasleep wrote: post #55
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…

Firefox does something like this. It doesn't load tab content on restart until the tab gains focus.

I think it's a setting - maybe "browser.sessionstore.restore_hidden_tabs" ?

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

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Post by martin-adams »

ck2 wrote: post #10

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

The amount of 3D rendering jobs I've lost due to automatic restarts in the middle of the night. My personal preference is to no install updates at night, partly because I power off my machine and when I leave it on, I need it on.

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

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Post by philbarr »

kokey wrote: post #72

Last year I was woken up in the middle of the night by my girlfriend, who was terrified by a voice that seems to come from the lounge. I got up, opened the door, and there was a bright white light. My girlfriend was even more terrified since she could only see me and the light shining on me from the lounge. It was the television. It turns out that when we were channel surfing earlier in the evening, we switched to a…

I watched The Ring once and must have left the TV on, because later that night I woke up to a light coming from the living room. I went in and the TV was doing the "white noise / static" thing exactly like in the movie.

I turned it off, unplugged it from the wall and thought, "ok, if that happens again I can officially shit myself."

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

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Post by epsylon »

halfasleep wrote: post #55
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…

Firefox does something like this. It doesn't load tab content on restart until the tab gains focus.

Except for the tab that was active.
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