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Comment by malandrew | Hacker News Reader

Awesome. I've gotten my IP banned several times after the browser crashed and I reopened the tabs (I had too many HN threads open prior to crash, enough to trigger the ban)

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Yeah... if I open Chrome I am pretty much guaranteed to be banned for days. :( The mechanism should really be changed to account for this: a ton of requests per second for only a few seconds should not trigger an issue, it should be a number of requests per second spike along with some sustained usage per minute. I actually made modifications to Chrome to change how it loads tabs mainly because of Hacker News' weird IP ban system, but I still got burned recently as I accidentally hit "undo close tab" one too many times, which reopened an entire window.

On firefox turn on the option "Don't load tabs until selected". I don't see this option in chrome.

It speeds up browser startup dramatically. Especially when you leave lots of tabs open as your "to read" list.

Yeah: I ended up figuring out a way to add it. I now generally like having the feature, but it was a complete necessity due to the Hacker News IP ban rules (although, as I mentioned, still doesn't solve the underlying problem for this site, which is incredibly touchy).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717730

Is there a similar setting in Opera?

It is so annoying that all the other browsers STILL have not implemented this little but very effective idea - please speak more loud about this, as it seems even most developers here did not even notice this feature...

My solution is to use a firewall with per-application rules and just turn off network access for chrome before I launch it. On my laptop I just unplug the wired/wireless network for during the launch. This was mainly because of HN but also has the added benefit of taking less system resources since a blank page typically is less resource hungry than a real page.

Firefox has a better solution for this but then again, I don't use firefox.

Happened to me as well with starting Opera. I felt as if my most loved uncle slammed the door in front of my face.

I only loaded so many pages because I love HN. :)

The ban was lifted a few days later, not sure if automatically or thanks to my (unresponded) email request.

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