I think that is a reasonable feature request. It would be nice however if
there were some way to know when to restore the old behavior.
Unfortunately, Chrome won't know when you are done.
-Darin
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Mike Morearty <m...@morearty.com> wrote:
> We just discussed that, and decided against using it, because it could be
> potentially confusing. Most users would be unaware that we were launching
> in a separate profile, and even someone who did know that we were doing this
> would probably find it inconvenient. For example, if he does open another
> tab in the Chrome instance that we launched, and then browse for a bit, he
> would now have two separate browser histories -- his main one and the one in
> our separate user profile. Could get to be a nuisance.
>
> For now, I think we're going to go ahead and launch with
> --disable-hang-monitor, and we may also write a tech note for our users
> explaining the issue, and suggesting that if they want to, they can add
> --disable-hang-monitor to the shortcut they use to launch Chrome. I might
> also log an enhancement request that if my new instance of Chrome passes
> control to an existing instance, it also pass the value of the
> --disable-hang-monitor flag, and that the existing instance respects that
> flag for just that one tab.
>
> Thanks! - Mike
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> You can try using the --user-data-dir flag to point the test instance
>> of Chrome at a dedicated testing profile. That will mean the
>> --disable-hang-monitor instance will actually stay around.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Mike Morearty <m...@morearty.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm a developer at Adobe, on the Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder)
>> > team. I'm trying to figure out how to allow --disable-hang-monitor to
>> > work even if Chrome is already running.
>> >
>> > Flash Builder, for those who aren't familiar with it, is a full IDE
>> > for creating Flash (and AIR) apps; one of its features is a debugger.
>> > So let's say you create a new project, set a breakpoint, and then
>> > click Debug. We launch your browser pointing at the Flash app; the
>> > Flash player that is inside the browser connects back to Flash
>> > Builder.
>> >
>> > Then let's say the Flash app hits the line where the breakpoint is.
>> > The Flash player notifies Flash Builder of the breakpoint, and then
>> > blocks, waiting on a socket until Flash Builder tells it what to do
>> > next (e.g. resume, single-step, etc.).
>> >
>> > The problem is that 30 seconds later, Chrome detects this as a hang
>> > (which it is, but it's a deliberate one), and puts up the usual
>> > message:
>> >
>> > The following plug-in is unresponsive: Shockwave Flash
>> > Would you like to stop it?
>> >
>> > Even if I say No, the message keeps reappearing every 30 seconds or
>> > so.
>> >
>> > I'd like to disable the message during debugging. It's easy to launch
>> > chrome with --disable-hang-monitor, and that does work, but only if
>> > Chrome wasn't already running before I began my debugging session. If
>> > Chrome *was* already running, then that flag has no effect. (I
>> > suspect probably the new instance of chrome.exe just passed control
>> > over to the existing instance, or something like that, and did not
>> > tell Chrome to use this flag.)
>> >
>> > I realize this is somewhat tricky to do. Ideally, that flag would
>> > apply to just the one tab or window that I tried to open, but not to
>> > all the other already-existing windows. I have not yet looked at the
>> > Chrome/Chromium source code, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is
>> > currently implemented as a global setting.
>> >
>> > Is this feasible? Is there some other way to do what I want? Should
>> > I log an enhancement request?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > - Mike Morearty
>> > Sr. Computer Scienstist
>> > Adobe Systems Inc.
>> >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>
>
> >
>
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