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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 leoedin »

laurent123456 wrote: post #89
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".

I've never selected that option in Chrome, and yet when my computer restarts from Windows Updates it displays the behaviour mentioned in the bug report. When I start Chrome normally, I get a blank tab, but when my computer is forcibly restarted with Chrome running, it tries to take me back to where I was.

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

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Post by grimman »

leoedin wrote: post #111
laurent123456 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

I've never selected that option in Chrome, and yet when my computer restarts from Windows Updates it displays the behaviour mentioned in the bug report. When I start Chrome normally, I get a blank tab, but when my computer is forcibly restarted with Chrome running, it tries to take me back to where I was.

I'm just speculating here, but it might be playing nice with Windows, since Windows does have this habit of restarting at night on certain days (patch Tuesday, is it?). For those who leave their computers on at all times, it would be a terrible thing indeed to lose their active pages.

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

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Post by grimman »

piotr_krzyzek wrote: post #107

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 l…

You don't even need a session manager. Much like Firefox it has the option to reopen the tabs from your previous session, right there in the settings!

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

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Post by grimman »

joosters wrote: post #88
dublinben wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In this usage scenario, it would probably be a better option to disable automatic updates and be vigilant about updates "manually". Windows will still notify you about updates, and it will be a bit of a hassle... but not a space heater kind of issue at least. :)

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

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Post by negativity »

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…

Yeah, totally. Not to mention that you basically can't leave your machine powered on and unattended anymore, lest the operating system decides to get frisky and update itself without asking first. And still worse are the times when you're right in the middle of something and the machine declares that it WILL reboot on you, and there's no two ways about it. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.

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

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Post by jnxfgf456 »

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?

Uh, how would that save power? We have a planned economy, the same power is being generated even if you don't use it.

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

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Post by moheeb »

dnissley wrote: post #103

I'm confused, does windows update restore previously running applications after restarting windows to install updates? Or do those affected have chrome set to run at startup?

A Windows Update restart will restore applications running at the time of the restart. It generally does a pretty good job of it too.

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

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Post by snowwrestler »

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 just looked--this is checked by default on my installation of Mountain Lion.
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