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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 hesselink »

tomelders wrote: post #74

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 yo…

You can configure this on OS X. In the General preferences, there is an option 'Close windows when quitting an application'.

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

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Post by lucb1e »

tomp wrote: post #57

The biggest issue I have with Chrome restoring tabs is that it completely hogs my computer and internet connection while requesting, downloading and rendering all the pages. To solve it, I simply turn off wi-fi when restarting Chrome, so that all the tabs reopen, but are not reloaded. The URLs are restored, and I can reload them exactly when I want to.

In fifty years we'll tell to our grandchildren: "Back in my day, we had to turn WiFi off before starting our browser after a crash, because it would not load when connected to the inter(galactic)net". They'll pity us I'm sure!

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

#84

Post by denzil_correa »

An important comment on the bug from a Chromium employee [0]

    Hacker News crowd, let's please stop the "me too" party 
    here, and please file separate bugs for separate issues 
    (even if they're similar). Keeping the signal-to-noise 
    ratio sane on this one raises the chances that it gets 
    addressed :)
    So you can help by only commenting if you have technical    
    comments on how to fix the problem in Chrome. It'd be a 
    shame if we had to lock this bug to prevent further 
    useless comments.
[0] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=224182#c...

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

#86

Post by lucb1e »

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.

Oh that's why Firefox does this, I find this very annoying and tried to turn it off in about:config to no avail...

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

#87

Post by tomelders »

hesselink wrote: post #81
tomelders wrote: post #74

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 yo…

You can configure this on OS X. In the General preferences, there is an option 'Close windows when quitting an application'.

I know this now, but like most people, I learned the hard way. And for some reasons, Pages, Numbers and Keynote seem to ignore this setting and continue to open up every file they can get their grubby little mitts on with gay abandon.

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

#88

Post by joosters »

dublinben wrote: post #52
notimetorelax wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC Windows turns itself on to install updates and then shuts down.

It will actually restart after installing updates and make you wonder why none of your programs from the night before are still running.

It's worse if you've encrypted your hard drive. After a 3am windows update, my Sony laptop reboots and stops at the Truecrypt 'enter your password' boot prompt. But at this pre-boot point, there's no OS power-saving. So the CPU is at 100%, the laptop fan spins up to hurricane levels, and the dumb thing just sits there for the rest of the night like an overpriced fan heater.

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

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Post by laurent123456 »

tomelders wrote: post #74

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 yo…

In Chrome, this is optional, by default it just opens a blank tab. The user in the bug report chose the option "Continue where I left off".

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

#90

Post by h2s »

denzil_correa wrote: post #84

An important comment on the bug from a Chromium employee [0] Hacker News crowd, let's please stop the "me too" party here, and please file separate bugs for separate issues (even if they're similar). Keeping the signal-to-noise ratio sane on this one raises the chances that it gets addressed :) So you can help by only commenting if you have technical comments on how to fix the problem in Chrome. It'd be a shame if we…

You can always tell if something is garbage on here by looking at the average length of the comments. Almost every single comment on this link is an inane one-liner that adds nothing to any meaningful discussion. And lo and behold, it's the same sort of shitty discussion as on the bug report itself.

Compare this with the comments on the 21 Nested Callbacks link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447287

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