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How about displaying more info about the "weight" of a page, when it comes to downloaded assets, cookies / local storage, RAM and CPU usage? I know there are as

How about displaying more info about the "weight" of a page, when it comes to downloaded assets, cookies / local storage, RAM and CPU usage? I know there are ass backwards and fugly ways to see all of that, but why can't I see a list of all open tabs, with columns of such info which I get to define and sort as I please? Why not have the option to that info pop up when hovering over a tab, and to show notification icons for certain thresholds, user definable with sensible defaults? There's a lot of things browsers should be doing. So what if 100 people don't care; the one person that does become more aware of what is going on more than makes up for it. * And just let us allow tabs to grab all the resources they want on a opt-in basis. Why not? * Before anyone brings up the inevitable economic argument - it wouldn't take a lot of man hours to do these things, I dare say it would just take one or two persons who are capable to be willing and allowed to do them. And compared to all sorts of things that browsers vendors made and get scrapped, you at least know tabs will always use ram, CPU and load assets over the network, so it's not ever going to be completely useless.

Phlarp 10y ago
You do know that Chrome has a task manager that will display memory, CPU and network usage for each tab right?
- drinkjuice 10y ago
  Yeah, make that "allow docking the task manager". Though I still miss a total about how many bytes got downloaded, average speed etc. I also miss it in other browsers (though I should have made that more clear, I wasn't meaning to "bash Chrome" -- this frustrates me since the departure of old Opera, with all browsers, I love the powerful web API stuff but I hate the user interface directions). And to repeat myself, I really do miss something akin to the icon that displays which tabs are playing sound -- not for myself, but because it would allow people to notice the difference between bloated and well crafted pages more easily. I appreciate they prefer to automatically decide what is best, but I would prefer more gauges, at least as an accessible option. If you hide something behind an "advanced" label, it will just scare people off for no reason. It's not like configurations dialog aren't kinda barren and padded as is. Just fix that and then just put things there, neatly categorized and maybe even searchable, and explain them. People can drive cars and vote for politicians, but we can't trust them to read? Just about any image viewer or video player seems to think more highly of people than browsers of all things do.
- TheRealDunkirk 10y ago
  Yes. The browser is slowly becoming it's own operating system. Like Oracle making a bare-metal version of their database, pretty soon, Google will just skip ChromeOS, bundle Chrome with a storage driver, input driver, and video and sound drivers, and be done with it.
dejawu 10y ago
It's not everything you asked for, but as it stands Chrome does have a task manager (Shift + Esc) that shows CPU usage, Memory, and also how the tabs are grouped process-wise.
- drinkjuice 10y ago
  I know, but you can use Chrome for a million years, and have resource hogging tabs crash your computer, without ever knowing about that. Even ("X seems to be slowing down your computer, press shift+ESC for a detailed breakdown") would help. The point is for abusive sites to stick out and have that imaginary free market, with the rational consumers and their informed decisions, do the rest.
- rhizome 10y ago
  By the by, why we can't switch to a tab from the task manager is a question for the ages.
TeMPOraL 10y ago
What I'd like is popping up plain warnings aimed at regular, non-tech user. "These tabs are currently slowing down your computer: <list>." Or, "This tab uses a lot of battery power." Besides directly providing information that is relevant to a typical user, I'd hope such a solution would finally put some pressure on the companies to optimize their webpages.

Phlarp 10y ago

You do know that Chrome has a task manager that will display memory, CPU and network usage for each tab right?

drinkjuice 10y ago
Yeah, make that "allow docking the task manager". Though I still miss a total about how many bytes got downloaded, average speed etc. I also miss it in other browsers (though I should have made that more clear, I wasn't meaning to "bash Chrome" -- this frustrates me since the departure of old Opera, with all browsers, I love the powerful web API stuff but I hate the user interface directions). And to repeat myself, I really do miss something akin to the icon that displays which tabs are playing sound -- not for myself, but because it would allow people to notice the difference between bloated and well crafted pages more easily. I appreciate they prefer to automatically decide what is best, but I would prefer more gauges, at least as an accessible option. If you hide something behind an "advanced" label, it will just scare people off for no reason. It's not like configurations dialog aren't kinda barren and padded as is. Just fix that and then just put things there, neatly categorized and maybe even searchable, and explain them. People can drive cars and vote for politicians, but we can't trust them to read? Just about any image viewer or video player seems to think more highly of people than browsers of all things do.
TheRealDunkirk 10y ago
Yes. The browser is slowly becoming it's own operating system. Like Oracle making a bare-metal version of their database, pretty soon, Google will just skip ChromeOS, bundle Chrome with a storage driver, input driver, and video and sound drivers, and be done with it.

dejawu 10y ago

It's not everything you asked for, but as it stands Chrome does have a task manager (Shift + Esc) that shows CPU usage, Memory, and also how the tabs are grouped process-wise.

drinkjuice 10y ago
I know, but you can use Chrome for a million years, and have resource hogging tabs crash your computer, without ever knowing about that. Even ("X seems to be slowing down your computer, press shift+ESC for a detailed breakdown") would help. The point is for abusive sites to stick out and have that imaginary free market, with the rational consumers and their informed decisions, do the rest.
rhizome 10y ago
By the by, why we can't switch to a tab from the task manager is a question for the ages.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

What I'd like is popping up plain warnings aimed at regular, non-tech user. "These tabs are currently slowing down your computer: <list>." Or, "This tab uses a lot of battery power." Besides directly providing information that is relevant to a typical user, I'd hope such a solution would finally put some pressure on the companies to optimize their webpages.