[Ipg-smz] ZDNet pages suck resources

[Christine Hall]

The latest Chrome browser mutes the sounds on all autoplay videos unless 
you tell it to let them run.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 4/3/19 2:51 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote:
> I also tweet crabbily about their stupid autoplay videos (of course, they
> ignore me too) and other rubbish. Wish I could tell my browser to
> automatically mute ZDNet tabs.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Steven J.
> Vaughan-Nichols
> Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 2:30 PM
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] ZDNet pages suck resources
> 
> 
> Quoting Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com>:
> 
>> If my computer starts slowing to a crawl and I look down to see memory
>> is maxed out and disk memory is starting to be used, all I have to do
>> is look through my open tabs, find the ZDNet article that's open,
>> close it, and memory use drops back down to about half of what's
>> available.
> 
> I know.
> 
> I've been arguing about our fat, klutzy design for years now. You can see
> how much influence I've had.
> 
> Steven
> --
> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
> Writer
> 
>