Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:45:06 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] Proposal for optimistic suspend idea. |
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:16:39AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 15:56 -0700, John Stultz wrote: > > > > > > I do think my idea is neat, so we can spend/burn time debating it, but > > if you have viable suggestions (and honestly, I think rewriting all of > > userland isn't viable) on solving the larger problem, I'm all ears. > > > And yet, rewriting all of userspace is exactly what Android did, they > had the perfect opportunity of doing it right, but they came up with the > worst solution ever. > > As for my laptop, I really would like the firefox guys to add a > 'feature' that stops JS on non-visible tabs and preferably also drop all > data after a little while. > > firefox is the #1 wakeup thing on my machine and its mostly invisible > (minimized) and when its not, I can only stare at a single tab anyway.
Oh yeah, same here.
I even went so far as to do
kill -STOP $(pidof firefox-bin)
at times simply because the thing was getting out of control. And to be honest, the moment a thinner browser comes out with authors who actually do care about not bloating the crap out of it, I'm jumping on it.
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