Chrome silently reloads tabs/processes killed in Task Manager
Reported by
krasnog...@gmail.com,
Feb 7 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open some tabs 2. Kill them in the chrome task manager with the "End Process" button 3. Wait n hours (I don't know the exact number) What is the expected behavior? Tabs don't invisibly reload on their own, wasting memory. What went wrong? In the task manager I notice that the killed tabs/processes are reloaded, with the corresponding ram used, but the tabs themselves in the UI still display "Aw, snap!" message, as if I just killed them. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 56.0.2924.76 Channel: stable OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0 I use a lot of tabs in several windows. Apparently 16GB is not enough these days, especially if you keep the browser open for prolonged periods of time (days, weeks). To free up some RAM (my system becomes unresponsive when it reaches the 16GB threshold ) I kill some tabs in chrome task manager in order to prevent that, with intention to reload them later with the ctrl-R. Chrome silently reloads the tabs in the background after some time, probably exhausting my ram, without even showing them. Somewhat unexpected behavior.
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Feb 8 2017
A little update: I noticed that one needs to close the task manager window and open it again in order for reloaded chrome tabs/processes to appear in the task manager. They are not shown if you don't relaunch the task manager. Reloaded processes perform network activity, their tabs are in "aw, snap", mode as mentioned earlier. Not yet sure if one needs to actively use the browser for it to happen. Not sure what triggers it.
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Mar 9 2017
Tested as per comment#1 in chrome # 56.0.2924.87 and Canary #59.0.3035.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 and not able to reproduce the issue.Please find the screen cast for your reference. @ krasnoglaz: Could you please let me know if i have missed anything and if possible,Please create new profile without extensions and apps.Re-check once and let us know the observations of the issue which would help us to triage the issue further. Thanks in Advance.
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Mar 10 2017
Finding what exactly triggers this issue is not easy. I can't trigger it myself in a fresh browser, only after some use. I need some time to find the exact steps. For the time being I post a screen cast that shows that I haven't hallucinated this issue. Right now I have 4 extensions, but these extensions are fairly popular and I don't think that extensions making tabs reload silently is a normal behavior. I will try to find if extensions affect this issue.
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Mar 10 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "rbasuvula@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Mar 17 2017
@krasnoglaz-- Could you please let us know if you can still able to reproduce the issue in latest stable M57 #57.0.2987.110 and please update with your observations. Thanks!
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Mar 19 2018
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot |
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Comment 1 by ajha@chromium.org
, Feb 7 2017