Chrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes - Slashdot

Posted by msmash

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  chrome already reloads with gay abandon, losing state all the way.

  This doesn't sound like much of an improvement, just shuffling the idiot memory hog tendencies under the carpet a bit.

  And there's still no way to turn off middle-click-jump-around-jump-around-goddamn-turn-it-off-idiot-google that I can find.

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    I use Chrome all day, every day, usually with 20-50 tabs loaded and never experienced anything you're describing. I know, about as important of a data point as your complaint, but even with all my co-workers also using Chrome, still never heard of anyone with such a complaint.

• Google makes a great browser engine
  Microsoft copies it, and adds features like hibernating tabs, memory and cpu improvements.
  Google copies Microsoft, and fixes Chrome

  The cycle of technology innovation continues.

• ...for phones only
• I'm an adult and can determine for myself when to throttle up and down my PC's energy usage (hint: when it's plugged in and I've actively using it, everything better run at 100%). All this does is add more layers of stuff that slow me down, and more crap that needs to be disabled or turned off.

• This is an admission that it can be done. We can limit visual effects, animations, constant refreshing ads, and all that other nonsense when we need to save power? We can do it all the time. Give us a button that lets us make the choice between:

  • A) An almost readable web experience for informational purposes.
  • B) Advertising hell on top of flashing graphics hell on top of pre-scrolling, constantly refilling/refreshing bullshit we're not interested in in the first place.

• I'll be thrilled when the best of these features comes to my privacy protected browser. Unfortunately, patching a Google product that is hostile to users seems much like putting lipstick on a pig.

• And I just spent 18 hours compiling the last one on Gentoo Linux. Maybe I'll just ge an ad-blocker. And not use so many tabs.

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    Sad thing is, I can't tell if you're joking

• But all those advert scripts need an entire operating system within an operating system to run. So lets arbitrarily drop support for Windows 7 & 8.1 because they typically run on systems with lower amounts of memory. Chrome was and is the worse thing that happened to the web, the glory days of Firefox from between 2004-2008 was a small but happy time, now Firefox is Chrome with a slightly different engine, but is forced to implement Chrome standards lest it gets websites dropping support for it.

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    Most websites don't use those "chrome standards." But chrome has so much influence with W3C, and of course if W3C doesn't keep pushing new standards, they're out of a job. Just another day in regulatory capture hell.