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An important comment on the bug from a Chromium employee [0]
Hacker News crowd, let's please stop the "me too" party
here, and please file separate bugs for separate issues
(even if they're similar). Keeping the signal-to-noise
ratio sane on this one raises the chances that it gets
addressed :)
So you can help by only commenting if you have technical
comments on how to fix the problem in Chrome. It'd be a
shame if we had to lock this bug to prevent further
useless comments.
You can always tell if something is garbage on here by looking at the average length of the comments. Almost every single comment on this link is an inane one-liner that adds nothing to any meaningful discussion. And lo and behold, it's the same sort of shitty discussion as on the bug report itself.
Compare this with the comments on the 21 Nested Callbacks link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447287
Isn't it nice to know that there really are a bunch of other people who:
1. Have the problem
2. Take the time to voice their wish for a fix
Even the coolest bug will remain unfixed if only one person reports it.
I run into similar situations whenever I restart my browser. All of the YouTube tabs I had open from before start playing simultaneously (at any given time I often have some tabs with videos paused, ready for me to watch later). It's quite distracting and takes some effort to find and stop them all.
I think a good solution for both of our problems would be to not load any of the Flash content in a particular tab if the tab hasn't received focus since the application was restarted. Once I open that tab, the plugin can load at that point and then the video can start playing.
Firefox does something like this. It doesn't load tab content on restart until the tab gains focus.
My solution was to switch to YouTube's HTML5 player. No more tabs crashing left and right.
And the YouTube Options extension is great, and solves the problem of auto play (besides adding a ton of extra features; downloads included).
Safari implements your solution. Though I wonder if it would even help if their Netflix tab was the focused one; for that case, it would also have to wait for some user interaction or something, which seems messier.
My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to watch one of the videos, just reloading the page is enough to kick Flash back into gear.
I had the same problem, now I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-autoplay-for-... so that if I open a tab in the background I don't have to manually pause the Youtube video or I if restore a chrome session like you said.
I use Flashblock in FF. You click on the flash then it starts to load.
I absolutely despise this trend of having software open stuff up automatically as if it's somehow helping. OS X is the biggest offender, for example; when Photoshop decides to just freak out opening a file, so you close photoshop, then reopen and it tries to reopen all your old files, including the one that's causing the problems. What sort of sadist wants 10 PSDs to open all at once?
I miss the good old days when you could reboot your machine and everything was fresh and pristine and yours to mess up.
Yeah, totally. Not to mention that you basically can't leave your machine powered on and unattended anymore, lest the operating system decides to get frisky and update itself without asking first. And still worse are the times when you're right in the middle of something and the machine declares that it WILL reboot on you, and there's no two ways about it. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.
Don't even get me started on what they did to Textedit. Apparently there's no such thing as saving anymore - it does it for you automatically.
That one has bit me quite a few times...
In Chrome, this is optional, by default it just opens a blank tab. The user in the bug report chose the option "Continue where I left off".
You can configure this on OS X. In the General preferences, there is an option 'Close windows when quitting an application'.
"This is serious. Though it never occurred on my computer because I use neither Windows nor Chrome but I support this anyway in the name of humanity."
In the name of humanity, wouldn't it be nice if people were in the habit of shutting their computers down, rather than letting them burn through electricity all night long?
I hope google, facebook, hacker news and other web sites would start shutting down at least half of their servers during the night. And, when I say night, I mean night anywhere on this platnet, not just night in some particular time zone. That would help.
It's 2013, I haven't shut a computer down in 4 years. Hibernate everything.
IIRC Windows turns itself on to install updates and then shuts down.
I have found most humans to not care about their energy consumption. So in the name of humanity, I have at least one computer on 24 hours a day.
I have electric heating, so the difference between using the baseboard heaters exclusively and using computers with the baseboard for supplemental heating is nil.
Yeah well, we don't!
or I mean just take charge of your technology instead of expecting it to babysit you through the night. Seriously, this is a ridiculous demand. It's impossible for a browser to manage every plug-in it has if you're not going to oversee your operating system.
One sort-of-workaround is to enable plugin click-to-play. It's less convenient, but it has other advantages. It prevents Flash content from annoying you unexpectedly (such as on every band website ever). It also adds a small bit of safety if there's ever a 0-day for Flash. Instead of getting exploited as soon as you visit any infected page, you'd at least have to click on an embed that you wanted to watch or play.
Unfortunately, this doesn't help for sites that use HTML5 for media. As more sites start using HTML5, I think demand for a ClickToHTML5 option/extension will rise.
I always do this in all my browsers (I use Flashblock or similar extensions). I have no idea why people need plugin content to start immediately. This also blocks most of the annoying ads.
I forgot this setting existed. Just turned it on... much, much better.
Firefox 'solves' this by only loading tabs that have been given the focus upon auto-restart.
So, if you have 10 tabs opened, and your computer restarts and Firefox is opened, the only tab that will actually load is the one that was last active.
I don't like this. It just feels like Firefox is being lazy to me.
I notice I have to wait a second or two when I switch to another tab. This is annoying because I remember seeing the page load before I restarted. My subconscious doesn't realize that it was a different process.
I'd rather my browser and everything else involved work a little harder to give me the illusion that nothing has changed after I restart.
This would be so great. Unfortunately the Chrome developers didn't like it. I can't find the bug now, but they don't want to add this and also don't allow any user options so that people can configure it :-(
One guy in that bug even wrote he patched that part out, but that's not a solution for me, I don't have time to compile Chronium myself.
Turning off wifi or configuring (in IE!) a fake proxy is the only remedy.
Last year I was woken up in the middle of the night by my girlfriend, who was terrified by a voice that seems to come from the lounge. I got up, opened the door, and there was a bright white light. My girlfriend was even more terrified since she could only see me and the light shining on me from the lounge. It was the television. It turns out that when we were channel surfing earlier in the evening, we switched to a channel that wasn't broadcasting anything, got distracted, and the television goes into sleep mode after a while when it's on such a channel. At 3am they started broadcasting some video loop, basically of a white background with a little text, and a woman's voice announcing something.
I blame this 'issue' on the op. True there are many potential paths that the Chrome/chromium developers can take with this, but they've chosen a different path from Firefox and others and as a user of Chrome that's what we have to stick with now.
If you don't like the behavior, there are ways to change it yourself:
* Install flash blocking plugin * Enable click-to-play * Install a plugin that disabled auto-play (at least for youtube, don't know about a netflix one) * Put the computer to sleep/hibernate * Turn off speakers * Turn off the computer ... * Close the netflix tab
There are many many options. If you don't like closing out chrome because you'll be missing your tabs, then use a plugin like "Session Manager" and then save your currently open tabs, and then close Chrome.
I don't think this is a bug. I think it works just fine.
Heck, I don't know which setting I have but if chrome crashes or if I restart my computer without nicely closing chrome, Chrome will re-open upon boot BUT it'll open a new blank tab with a bar at the top that says something like "Chrome didn't shut down properly. Do you want to restore your old tabs?" ... that works extremely well.
The biggest issue I have with Chrome restoring tabs is that it completely hogs my computer and internet connection while requesting, downloading and rendering all the pages.
To solve it, I simply turn off wi-fi when restarting Chrome, so that all the tabs reopen, but are not reloaded. The URLs are restored, and I can reload them exactly when I want to.
Anyone care to guess what kind of creative "Closed:..." tag this bug gets?
Good bug to address but who allows Windows to power itself up and install updates unsupervised?
Not a good idea.
The other problem is windows getting out of sleep mode to install updates without even asking.
Youtube is harmless. Have three different porn sites open when restarting Chrome after a power loss and then listening to three porns at once... ouch.
I think the problem is that the user has set Chrome to run on boot. If he removed Chrome from the startup list this problem would not occur.
I donot really understand why Chrome needs to be on startup. Can we not click a taskbar icon and start it whenever we want?
I'm confused, does windows update restore previously running applications after restarting windows to install updates? Or do those affected have chrome set to run at startup?
I use external speakers. They have a power button. I turn them off when I'm away.
This is a perfect bug report. Humor, steps to reproduce, a real world problem... This would be a bug I chose to work on as soon as possible (if it turns out it is something that can be fixed in this project alone).
Just close the Netflix tab before you sleep. I hate my generation.
You can set Chrome to not restore tabs when restarted
This has happened to me multiple times.
Stop using Windows. Problem solved.
Cute. One "solution" of course is to set the 'On startup' setting to anything other than 'continue where I left off.'.