Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/29
I’m not the only one with a Mac having issues with Google Chrome Helper CPU usage, but most of the entries are for older Chrome versions. So below are the steps I performed. There are also pros and cons are after the steps.
In chrome://settings/content, under “Plugins”, I ticked “Let me choose when to run plugin content” (it was at “Detect and run important plugin content (recommended)”. That dialog doesn’t allow you to copy it’s content, so no HTML, just this screenshot:
In chrome://plugins/ I disabled this one:
Adobe Flash Player – Version: 20.0.0.267 (Disabled)
Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0
| Description: |
Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0 |
| Location: |
/Users/jeroenp/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/PepperFlash/20.0.0.267/PepperFlashPlayer.plugin |
| Type: |
PPAPI (out-of-process) |
| MIME types: |
| application/x-shockwave-flash |
Shockwave Flash |
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| application/futuresplash |
Shockwave Flash |
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Pros of these settings:
- If you have a lot of tabs open (many of them suspended using The Great Suspender), then Google Chrome Helper uses far less CPU.
- Youtube doesn’t use the Flash Player any more. It now uses HTML5 which seems far more battery friendly and more responsive.
Cons of these settings:
- PDFs don’t automatically open any more, nor auto-download. You get something like this:
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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/30
All Google URLs you will ever need in one handy place: How To Work with Google Reference List I. by Dennis Labelle.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/16
Google Podcasts might not be what you’re after:
Podcast producers that are not too happy, saying that Google Play is going to downsample and re-encode podcasts down to a minimal 64k of audio quality. That is not good news. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
Source: I sure am hearing a lot about Google embracing Podcasts, and how it is going to…
So just like on YouTube, Google seems to play the audio normalisation game again.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/13
I know, friday 13, bla, bla, but this works great! VidCast: Chromecast for the rest of the web.
It works with: Vimeo, TED, and tons of other sites.
The first I tried is was a great half hour Devopsdays Amsterdam 2015 session “Leslie Hawthorn – Fear of Failing Fast: How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Success”
The easiest way is to drag the VidCast bookmarklet button to your bookmarks bar once, then for videos you want to watch:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/25
Esc: Back button; F1: Menu button; Home: Home button.
Really really cool!
Vysor (by Koushik Dutta aka Koush) lets you not only share and control your Android device screen from your local Chrome browser, but also remotely to others having a Chrome browser with Vysor installed. And Vysor gives you full ADB access to your Android device.
Some links to get started:
To get started:
- Enable ADB on your Android phone.
- Connect your Android phone over USB to your computer.
- Start Vysor.
- Connect.
- Enjoy.
After connecting over ADB, Vysor sideloads the Android code to share both screen and input. So besides viewing your screen, you can then control it.
Of course your mouse works, including scrolling. And the keyboard for entering text.
There are also some special keys:
- Esc: Back button;
- F1: Menu button;
- Home: Home button.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/22
This was a search for ISDN S0 bus: https://www.google.com/search?q=ISDN+S0+bus
Google thinks it is in German, but it is in English: even the html tag indicates it is in English:
<!doctype html><html itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/SearchResultsPage" lang="en"><head><meta content="/images/google_favicon_128.png" itemprop="image"><meta content="origin" id="mref" name="referrer">
I cannot change the page so nothing I can use from the suggestions in html – Why does Chrome incorrectly determine page is in a different language and offer to translate? – Stack Overflow.
Anybody knows what can I do to prevent this wrong guess?
Can anyone from +GoogleTranslate please step in?
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