ijabbott wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:47 pm
Does it still happen from a "Guest" browser window? (Click the user icon in the top right corner and select "Guest".) That will have all the extensions disabled.
Yes it's one of the first tests I tried.
As a side note, I've set up my Linux Arm Chromium units to use minimal extensions anyway. I mainly only utilise extensions on those units that relate to privacy - uBlock Origin, uMatrix. Quick JavaScript Switcher, Privacy Badger, Popup Blocker Pro, PixelBlock and DuckDuckGo Privacy. And on forum sites such as the SM forum I disable all privacy related extensions as I trust the site to be run in a responsible manner. I never use all privacy extensions on all websites but over time I've worked out the most apt privacy extension per site - some sites destroy the user experience when ad blocking technologies are used, so you have to be a little more cunning with the strategy you employ, e.g. using extensions like uMatrix (great granular control) and Privacy Badger (far less well known than extensions like Ublock but created by the best in the business - the Electronic Frontier Foundation); plus my cookies get cleaned weekly.
Other extensions which may be utilised on an adhoc basis are as follows:
Pinboard Plus - I use this for all my bookmarking
Pinboard Search - I pay for the premium account, which indexes the full page content of said bookmarks.
Reader View - Because Google still don't provide a decent Reader by default
DarkReader - See above, Google likes to blind me at night!
Tab Activate - I use 'right click, open in new tab' most of the time, and this ensures the tab is selected automatically
The Great Suspender - I use my browser for a lot of work related research so I'll occasionally have many tabs open. This extension pauses them after a short time and frees the memory - a really important extension on Raspberry Pi's where you only have 4 Gb of RAM.
Unpaywall - checks if academic papers are available without the paywall elsewhere.
h264ify - ensures that YouTube and other video sites stream at the most optimum format for browsers with low OS RAM.
Google Docs Offline - Self explanatory
Google Dictionary - Self explanatory
Google Translate - Self explanatory
Google Calendar - Self explanatory
I separately monitor processor temperature, processor utilisation, and available RAM live and ensure that any Raspberry Pi never goes above 50% RAM utilisation, and that the temperature never goes above 75% (they each employ FanShim cooling).
But as mentioned originally, I tend to use a minimal extension strategy on my Pi's and enable/disable at point of need.
Over 50% of my work relates to web development and kiosk deployment (e.g. brand communication stuff in car showrooms and suchlike) so I'm pretty on the button when it comes to badly behaved Chrome extensions. Some advise not using Chrome on privacy rationale grounds, but as long as you know available tools to employ, I find that the great things about Chrome outweigh the bad. And many of these tools Google provide themselves, it's simply a matter of user deployment.