Jerusalem Post website annoyances

Every time you open an JP article in Google Chrome browser it attempts to run hundreds if not thousands of videos within a few minutes.

It slows down the responsiveness of the browser, the web page browser tab shows a spinning wheel etc. My laptop starts to make sounds like the CPU is in distress. Very annoying!

Google Chrome Browser annoyances

It looks like Google just introduced a new feature Memory Saver to show how much memory an inactive tab uses.

Why does e.g. a simple Google search use up over 100 MB? Does this not indicate that Google Chrome is ineffizient in its management of storage/memory? I think so!

I am not sure I like this new feature. It seems more annoying than helpful. Before this new feature I did not have any memory issues despite the fact that I always have at least 6 instances of Google Chrome open at any time. But I also have 16 GB of RAM.

I just turned the new feature off! 😊

Google Chrome Browser annoyances

Unfortunately, I often receive encrypted hyperlinks to recent research articles that when clicked on open a PDF file in the Chrome browser.

It appears, there is also no way to stop the ongoing load of a PDF file. Some PDF files are very large. So annoying!

It appears, these are the only settings of the browser that allow you to do two equally stupid and not very helpful things with such links:

How much does Google get paid to suppress the reader mode feature of it's Chrome browser?

Some websites, in particular, news websites use tons of annoying advertisement to distract you from reading their articles. Of course, one should not visit these annoying websites anymore.

It is peculiar though, that Google Chrome browser offers this very useful reader mode feature, but some websites (e.g. https://justthenews.com/) are able to turn this feature off. The aforementioned website is also able to suppress the Chrome extension Just Read!

If Google is not being paid to suppress the read only feature, then is it possible that Google Chrome was hacked?

Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August

Bravo Google! It did not read the details, but in general it is good news! This was long overdue! It is e.g. outrageous that videos in ads run automatically without my consent!!!

The so called ad blocker do not work to well either, because more than a few websites refuse to show their content when they detect an ad blocker.

Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August | VentureBeat

Chrome Browser Annoyances

Posted: 10/26/2018  Corrected: 11/26/2018 Updated: 2/20/2020, 12/3/2018

System & Environment Info

I am using Fedora Linux on a notebook. I usually have at least three instances of the browser opened at any time with at least 10-20 tabs across the three instances.

Annoyances

I meant to write this blog post for some time. There are plenty of annoyances (many I have forgotten in the meantime). More will be added ...

1. Print to PDF file has a serious limit of a maximum of around 50 pages or so. If the webpage content translates into more than about 50 pages when printing to PDF file stalls and will not complete the preview. Printing the same webpage using Firefox browser succeeds (12/3/2018)
2. Cached stuff is poorly managed. At around 300 MB of cached images and files browser becomes sluggish in responding. After I clear this images and files cache things improve to some extent.
3. For many years now, you cannot log in with different Google accounts in two different instances. Switching between accounts is a pain. Thus, I resort to opening an incognito window, to log into my other Google account. Very cumbersome!
4. Saving a web page as a PDF file would be a nice feature (Correction 11/26/2018: To save a PDF file is actually possible through the print function)
5. Drop file functionality to upload a file from your computer is not working anymore for about two weeks or longer (2/20/2020). No feedback at all as to why it is not working anymore

Chrome Browser Annoyances

Posted: 10/26/2018  Corrected: 11/26/2018 Updated: 12/3/2018

System & Environment Info

I am using Fedora Linux on a notebook. I usually have at least three instances of the browser opened at any time with at least 10-20 tabs across the three instances.

Annoyances

I meant to write this blog post for some time. There are plenty of annoyances (many I have forgotten in the meantime). More will be added ...

1. Print to PDF file has a serious limit of a maximum of around 50 pages or so. If the webpage content translates into more than about 50 pages when printing to PDF file stalls and will not complete the preview. Printing the same webpage using Firefox browser succeeds (12/3/2018)
2. Cached stuff is poorly managed. At around 300 MB of cached images and files browser becomes sluggish in responding. After I clear this images and files cache things improve to some extent.
3. For many years now, you cannot log in with different Google accounts in two different instances. Switching between accounts is a pain. Thus, I resort to opening an incognito window, to log into my other Google account. Very cumbersome!
4. Saving a web page as a PDF file would be a nice feature (Correction 11/26/2018: To save a PDF file is actually possible through the print function)