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thewayneI keep a lot of tabs open in my browser. I mean A LOT. Several months ago one of them went weird and it prevented my screen saver from activating, which prevented my computer from going to sleep!
And that really sucked.
I couldn't find the screen that was causing the problem. And like I said, LOTS of open windows! Well, today I'm doing my infusion. Normally that's a Sunday thing, but yesterday was kinda busy - so is today, but that's another story - so I'm doing it today. Sitting in front of my computer doing my nebulizer, reading some news, going to do a bunch of Photoshopping after I finish my news while waiting for my infusion to complete, then meeting my wife for dinner and to go see the new Wreck It Ralph movie.
AND MY SCREEN SAVER KICKS IN! W00TIES!
Previously, I'd still been able to put my iMac to sleep, either by telling it to go to sleep, or by flipping the cursor into the top left corner, which is configured as a hot corner to activate my screen saver, and ultimately it'd go to sleep. But it's nice to know that now it'll go to sleep if I walk away and get distracted.
Not that I EVAH get distracted. No sirreee.
FYI, on a Mac, we have a program called Activity Monitor, there's a similar program for Windows. Ours has a Energy tab that will show us if a program is preventing our computer from going to sleep. Very useful little program. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't have any internal diagnostic that'll tell me which tab is hogging resources and causing me grief!
Still, I'm happy that it's resolved.
And that really sucked.
I couldn't find the screen that was causing the problem. And like I said, LOTS of open windows! Well, today I'm doing my infusion. Normally that's a Sunday thing, but yesterday was kinda busy - so is today, but that's another story - so I'm doing it today. Sitting in front of my computer doing my nebulizer, reading some news, going to do a bunch of Photoshopping after I finish my news while waiting for my infusion to complete, then meeting my wife for dinner and to go see the new Wreck It Ralph movie.
AND MY SCREEN SAVER KICKS IN! W00TIES!
Previously, I'd still been able to put my iMac to sleep, either by telling it to go to sleep, or by flipping the cursor into the top left corner, which is configured as a hot corner to activate my screen saver, and ultimately it'd go to sleep. But it's nice to know that now it'll go to sleep if I walk away and get distracted.
Not that I EVAH get distracted. No sirreee.
FYI, on a Mac, we have a program called Activity Monitor, there's a similar program for Windows. Ours has a Energy tab that will show us if a program is preventing our computer from going to sleep. Very useful little program. Unfortunately Firefox doesn't have any internal diagnostic that'll tell me which tab is hogging resources and causing me grief!
Still, I'm happy that it's resolved.
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Date: 2018-12-10 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-11 04:07 am (UTC)It really bugged me that Mozilla had no debug modes or tools for helping to identify such. They had a tool for identifying runaway media players, but I knew that wasn't my problem. Seems to me that's a developer niche that could be filled.
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Date: 2018-12-11 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-11 08:17 pm (UTC)Yep. I've changed my behavior a bit and taken to bookmarking a lot of stuff in Pocket, which lets me read things on my phone or my two iPads, but then I now have 150+ things marked there! I don't have time to read everything as I find it and it just continues to accumulate.