[Ipg-smz] ZDNet pages suck resources

CHRIS PREIMESBERGER cpreimesberger at comcast.net
Wed Apr 3 21:29:02 UTC 2019


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Chris Preimesberger
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> On April 3, 2019 at 11:59 AM David Needle <davidneedle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks Scott! That looks extremely useful.
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:55 AM Scott Koegler < scott at koegler.net mailto:scott at koegler.net > wrote:
> 
>         > >         RE: muting tabs - 
> > 
> >         I use something called 'the great suspender' in Chrome. It automatically suspends open tabs if you haven't used them in X minutes. It's made a tremendous difference in memory and CPU usage when I have way too many tabs open.
> > 
> >         It's a chrome extension.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         . . .
> >         Scott Koegler
> >         scott at koegler.net mailto:scott at koegler.net
> >         336-818-9463
> >         Skype: skoegler
> >         ScottKoegler.me
> > 
> > 
> >         On Apr 3, 2019, at 2:51 PM, Lynn Greiner < ipg-smz at netpress.org mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org > 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 mailto: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 mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org
> >                 Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] ZDNet pages suck resources
> > 
> > 
> >                 Quoting Christine Hall < christine at fossforce.com mailto: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
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