chrome questions

I run two browsers, Firefox 3.6.13 and Chrome 10.0.648.82 dev. I use
Firefox if a site doesn't deal well with Chrome -- in the last few days,
that's eBay. Also if I need to scope out Javascript permissions, that's
much easier in FF. But C wins hand down for memory management and CPU
use.

However, Chrome takes forever and a day to start up, because it tries to
refresh every tab at once, and there's not enough memory for that (I'm
maxed out at 8 GiB). Chrome trying though, makes the system thrash like
crazy and drives the load up over 20. The system becomes unusable,
taking several minutes to respond to a keypress. It takes 30-40 minutes
to resume normalcy. I've thought of several solutions (listed in order
of preference), but I don't know if any of them are possible.

1. Chrome postpones loading further tabs until the load drops below
(say) 4.

2. Each tab loads with a random delay, say between 0 and 120
seconds.

3. Chrome crashes all tabs, replacing the contents with the "Oh
snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage." message,
and only loads it when I hit F5. Chrome doesn't have a "Refresh all
tabs" command, so this would either take a while or be an "as needed"
procedure.

Any ideas?

-eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81

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