Marking it as Untriaged as the issue is of Type feature.

Thanks,

For now, you can open chrome://discards and manually kill tabs or enable Chrome's tab discarding feature and let Chrome automatically do the work.

rpop@: over to you for desktop PM expertise. Do you think this feature is worth exposing in the tab context menu?

Please provide a URL that produces this issue.

I'd prefer we address the root cause here. Can we do more to make sure close tab works in this scenario? Should the sab tab be showing up earlier?

@lemon: chrome://discards doesn't work on Linux - see issue 650158

@rpop: I've filed a bug that shows a tab being hard to close, and not releasing CPU cycles after it was closed:  issue 653783 . I've also seen tabs that were impossible to close, but reproducing that was more difficult. See also issue 630840.

Thanks for the examples. We should make the existing UI for close tab more resilient if possible. I don't want to introduce a new UI entry point for "kill tab" because most users won't know the difference between this and close (and for those who do, there's task manager.)

Defer to eng on whether there are changes to close tab that make sense here.

This was discussed a while back and the consensus was that it was not worth cluttering the context menu with that option. Our hope was that extensions could add that option (since now we have discard API), however it doesn't look like extensions have the ability to modify the tab strip context menu.

As for chrome://discards not available on Linux, this will be fixed soon (I have a CL ready for review). Stay tuned!

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/d2ee5e6f646b503fcb77a0597d8d38774e36aaa8

commit d2ee5e6f646b503fcb77a0597d8d38774e36aaa8
Author: georgesak <georgesak@chromium.org>
Date: Thu Oct 27 22:47:45 2016

Enable chrome://discards on Linux.

Tab manager was enabled on Linux a while ago but  chrome://discards was never made available on that platform. This CL fixes that.

Note that automatic discarding is still not available on Linux due to the lack of memory pressure subsystem on that platform.

BUG=551995, 642327 ,650158

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2453453002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#428173}

[modify] https://crrev.com/d2ee5e6f646b503fcb77a0597d8d38774e36aaa8/chrome/browser/ui/webui/about_ui.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/d2ee5e6f646b503fcb77a0597d8d38774e36aaa8/chrome/browser/ui/webui/chrome_web_ui_controller_factory.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/d2ee5e6f646b503fcb77a0597d8d38774e36aaa8/chrome/common/url_constants.cc
[modify] https://crrev.com/d2ee5e6f646b503fcb77a0597d8d38774e36aaa8/chrome/common/url_constants.h

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Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

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Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

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This should not be archived.

The product-side decision in #9 still stands so this bug is still WontFix.