On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Scherkus <[email protected]>wrote:
> It'd be nice to have a non-distracting visual indicator, but to play the > devil's advocate... > What about intentionally CPU intensive sites that use <canvas>, <video>, > WebGL? > > What about scenarios where it's a plugin that's gone haywire? > > Could this be accomplished by an extension that displays a little CPU > graph? > I would love to see this as an extension-- just like the graph that Procexp.exe or the Windows Task Manager puts in the tray, only per tab in the location bar (getting its data from the Chrome Task Manager). Is that information available to extensions? On a grander scale, it would be great to also have a button to "suspend" a renderer process if I'm not using it at the moment. I'm sure there's a ton of complicated issues there, though-- it might suspend several seemingly unrelated tabs, the page(s) may have network requests in progress, Flash or a plugin could be to blame, etc, etc. Charlie > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> We had also discussed putting icons indicating audio into tabs. That >> sounds crowded with icons, though: imaginably a game could have >> facicon, Unicode symbols, CPU load, audio, and the "x" displayed. I >> worry there just aren't enough pixels to display all the relevant >> information. >> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Glen Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Something like yes! Maybe not a dialog, as I use things that peg my >> > CPU (games) somewhat frequently. >> > >> > One idea we toyed with was marking such tabs as 'on fire' (icon or >> > color), so at least there was a visual indication. I think this would >> > be a good starting point before anything more obtrusive like a dialog >> > or bar. >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just a while before one of my tabs (GMail) started using a lot of CPU >> time >> >> (67% while I was compiling in the background). The browser and the >> system >> >> were responsive at all times, but processing power was wasted. >> >> We have a warning dialog for hanged renderers offering to kill them. >> What do >> >> you think about a warning dialog for renderers consistently using a lot >> of >> >> CPU? >> >> > >> >> >> > >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
