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A browser-based resource usage view of per-tab CPU/RAM etc.
5 days later
Came here looking for this when I noticed two Orion processes using 100% cpu each. Found the 'Low Power Mode' switch under Tools, so for a quick-fix you can turn it on and off to stop the misbehaving tab. The fun part is finding the culplit when reloading tabs...
Hope this can get implemented soon, even just a rough report in an about:tabs or something would do for now.
2 months later
@Vlad Do tabs and extensions map 1:1 or 1:many with processes? If so, is it possible to name the Process according to the tab?
i.e. in Activity Monitor, it would say "Orion Web Content [Gmail]". Or, if this imposes too many constraints like should you put domain or website title or inability to rename process only once the page has loaded, how about giving some UUID in the process name, and Orion provides a way to map from UUID to the specific tab, such as from the Tools or Develop menu
There's a couple of privacy implications around this, as you might end up revealing (on a multi-user system) which sites one user has open, from another user account.
I believe Safari has this, but when you view the processes from another user account, you don't see the site name/domain, but I'm not sure.
7 months later
5 months later
This could be relevant:
6 months later
I just want to say that Activity Monitor already support this.
I have noticed this too actually, it must be a recent change in Orion because I'm pretty sure it wasn't the case when I orignally starred this thread. At least for me, having the URLs in Activity Monitor is more than adequate
Google chrome has a feature where if your cursor is over a tab, it loads small preview window to see the tab (most browsers have it as well). This would be good to add as well as chrome's feature to show the memory usage of the tab when in the tab preview.
When the user hovers their cursor on the tab, it will show a tab preview as well as the current memory usage of the tab hovered on.
7 months later
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3 months later
This really should be top priority in my opinion.
Here is example that just happened to me:
I opened a website https://msty.app/pricing and left it running in the background as I navigated away to different tabs/pages. This hidden tab was actually excessively consuming CPU. If I had a task manager, I could easily see which tab misbehaved, and in activity monitor I could not see which tab it was, because it was shown as "Orion Web Content". Luckily I could decude from the "CPU time" that I had opened it 2 hours prior and I didn't open too many tabs in that time.
Even better would be ability to actively see this excessive CPU usage, on the tab itself. For example, if Orion detects that an inactive tab is consuming excessive amount of CPU (for example more than 50% of one core), it could color the tab in red or show a power icon next to it (
). This should not show up for the active tab, as its usage would normally be higher due to user's page interaction.
If I didn't have a CPU usage indicator in the menu bar, I would never have known something was misbehaving.
5 months later
Chrome/Chromium has a "task manager" that allows you to see the memory/CPU usage of tabs and terminate resource hogs:
Right now, the only way to do that in Orion is to use Activity Monitor, where I guess I get to see the domains, but I have no idea which, say, YouTube video, or google doc, is which:
Orion has a habit of somehow eating my RAM even worse than Chrome does, and I don't always want to use the nuclear option of suspending all tabs. I'd like to know which tab even is the culprit and only then make the decision of if I'd like to suspend it or what else to do about it.
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can the title of this thread please be changed so that it's actually discoverable in the search that I did before my own thread about this 
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