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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 #94

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You can star it. That would tell the developers how many people care about it in O(1) time, without having to wade through O(n) comments. Alright, O(log n) time.

Why O(log n)? Is there a binary search involved somewhere (for example)? All you have got to do to find out how many people voted for it is to look at the vote count and this seems like an O(1) operation doesn't it?

The number n has log(n)/log(10) digits so it technically take log(n) time to read it.

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

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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…

Back in the 80s, i got home from school and started loading some karate game on my c64, the load time was like 10minutes, when it was done it played a sound bite of a long drawn out, growling , karate punch sound HIIIIYahhhhh!!!!, I turned the volume up to full blast so I could hear it when it was done, and went downstairs to heat up a burrito. I'm home by myself and I'm like in the 4th grade, anyway I guess I forgot about the game and I'm eating my burrito when I hear the horrendously loud growling hiyah, it sounded like zombie apocalypse, I shit myself and ran outside, I've never been so scared in my life. I found my friend on the street and told him there was a ghost in my house. We grabbed some sticks and went inside, totally shitting, only to find the game ready to play. I felt like a dumbshit.

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

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post #82
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!

I like that :-)

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

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post #90

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

Reminds me of all the +1 comments on GitHub issues. They add nothing to the conversation and you can easily subscribe to an issue by clicking the "watch" button.

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

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post #59
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.

This would be so great. Unfortunately the Chrome developers didn't like it. I can't find the bug now, but they don't want to add this and also don't allow any user options so that people can configure it :-( One guy in that bug even wrote he patched that part out, but that's not a solution for me, I don't have time to compile Chronium myself. Turning off wifi or configuring (in IE!) a fake proxy is the only remedy.

I think you mean this one: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105666

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

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I blame this 'issue' on the op. True there are many potential paths that the Chrome/chromium developers can take with this, but they've chosen a different path from Firefox and others and as a user of Chrome that's what we have to stick with now.

If you don't like the behavior, there are ways to change it yourself:

* Install flash blocking plugin * Enable click-to-play * Install a plugin that disabled auto-play (at least for youtube, don't know about a netflix one) * Put the computer to sleep/hibernate * Turn off speakers * Turn off the computer ... * Close the netflix tab

There are many many options. If you don't like closing out chrome because you'll be missing your tabs, then use a plugin like "Session Manager" and then save your currently open tabs, and then close Chrome.

I don't think this is a bug. I think it works just fine.

Heck, I don't know which setting I have but if chrome crashes or if I restart my computer without nicely closing chrome, Chrome will re-open upon boot BUT it'll open a new blank tab with a bar at the top that says something like "Chrome didn't shut down properly. Do you want to restore your old tabs?" ... that works extremely well.

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

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post #86
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...

There is a "Don't load tabs until selected" option in the tabs submenu, in preferences. Ensure it is not ticked for your desired behaviour.

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

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It's 2013, I haven't shut a computer down in 4 years. Hibernate everything.

It's 2013, and hibernation is broken in Ubuntu! :(

Works for me on my seven year old Thinkpad.

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

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post #61
post #49

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Ok, forgive me if I'm missing some sarcasm here but... you realize that about half the planet is in darkness at any given time, right?

I think you're missing some sarcasm here. It's OK, I forgive you.

Thank you. I should not respond to things at 4:00 in the morning.
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