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Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by darkstar999 »

Newky wrote: post #9

From what I understand, this calls out to their servers and they display a page? Would it not be more secure and safer to render this on some sort of local page? Don't really see the need for this information to go to a third party server.

Read the Privacy section:

> Your tab URLs are never transmitted or disclosed to either the OneTab developers or any other party, and icons for tab URL domains are generated by Google. The only exception to this is if you intentionally click on our 'share as a web page' feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others. Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the 'share as a web page' button.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by srgseg »

Newky wrote: post #9

From what I understand, this calls out to their servers and they display a page? Would it not be more secure and safer to render this on some sort of local page? Don't really see the need for this information to go to a third party server.

(OneTab developer here): None of your tabs are sent to a third party server. It's all stored in HTML5 local storage.

The only way the one-tab servers know about your tabs is if you click to 'share as a web page', which transmits your tabs to our servers to create a web page you can share with others.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by exterm »

Edit: This is not meant to sound discouraging to the developer; I just suspect he solved the wrong problem.

I find it very strange that a tool exists to reduce chrome's memory footprint by closing tabs. This does not seem to be the right solution to any problem I can think of.

If memory consumption is what bugs you, maybe you should use a browser that consumes less memory per open tab.

If the number of open tabs is what bugs you, then you are probably using tabs as temporary bookmarks. There should be tools especially for this job. Some sort of "read-it-later" list comes to mind.

"one-tab" looks like some sort of read-it-later list that is labeled as a memory saver. Fascinating.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by Newky »

srgseg wrote: post #12
Newky wrote: post #9

From what I understand, this calls out to their servers and they display a page? Would it not be more secure and safer to render this on some sort of local page? Don't really see the need for this information to go to a third party server.

(OneTab developer here): None of your tabs are sent to a third party server. It's all stored in HTML5 local storage. The only way the one-tab servers know about your tabs is if you click to 'share as a web page', which transmits your tabs to our servers to create a web page you can share with others.

Thanks for the clarification, I should read more carefully.

Apologies.

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by rufugee »

Looks great and I would definitely put it to use, but on Ubuntu with Chrome 22.0.1229.94, I get "Installation failed either due to cancelling the dialog box or because you already have the extension installed" when installing from your web page. When I try to do it from the web store, I get "There was a problem adding the item to Chrome. Please refresh the page and try again".

Re: Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome

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Post by mvzink »

Serow225 wrote: post #6

Neat. Could you add some sort of way for the user to choose whether they want to restore into the current window, instead of a new window? Cheers :)

Yeah, I was wondering about this. Honestly feels like a design flaw. When I hit "restore all" I expected the tabs to replace the OneTab... tab. Other than that, and knowing that it's all in HTML5 localStorage, this will be replacing PanicButton!
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