You could replace the favicon with a spinning clock or something. It
might also be interesting to provide indicators for high memory usage
(or perhaps if the recent memory growth is high), or IPC issues.
Then again, many users might prefer not to have their tabs attracting
attention needlessly. I mostly don't care whether a tab is using lots
of CPU.
-scott
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Glen Murphy <g...@chromium.org> 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.
> <phajdan...@chromium.org> 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?
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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