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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc
New issue 8509 by badpazzword: High CPU programs cause "Plugin is
unresponsive" msgbox's that steal window focus
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8509
GMail Offline should always be a Normal Priority page. When CPU intensive
apps, like games, are launched they choke Google Gears out of CPU time. The
result is the "unresponsive plugin" message box
Chrome Version : 2.0.168.0 on WinXP Pro
URLs (if applicable) : mail.google.com
Other browsers tested: Firefox 3
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Firefox 3: OK
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open GMail and go into Flacky Connection Mode
2. Fire up your favourite CPU Hogging program, possibly a videogame in
fullscreen mode running in a different resolution
3. Wait
4. Screen flickers, you are returned to Windows desktop and a message box
appears: "The following program has become unstable: Google Gears"
5. Fire up Task Manager
6. Set priority for all instances of Chrome to Normal
7. The message box is gone and GMail Offline refreshes
8. Finally return to what you were doing, after some extra screen
flickering.
What is the expected result?
No disruption should happen. Ideally, GMail Offline would automatically set
the process priority to Normal.
What happens instead?
The user has to stop whatever it was doing and either let Chrome kill the
plugin, or let Chrome try again (which will trigger the messagebox again),
or go to Task Manager and set the proper priority setting for the process.
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