An interesting option, since the bulk of the wasted time is from scrolling the feed, is to show the first 1/5/10/20/50 feed items and eliminate the remainder.
This could be an alternative to pausing for X minutes, and would enable one to forget eventually that there ever was an infinite scroll.
It is likely be more difficult than eliminating the entire feed, due to deleting individual blocks of content or intercepting the scroll action that would trigger loading more.
Update: I've found the "Scroll Stop" extension which redirects one after scrolling a certain number of pixels, but still think finding the feed ending after a number of posts would provide a better experience.
An interesting option, since the bulk of the wasted time is from scrolling the feed, is to show the first 1/5/10/20/50 feed items and eliminate the remainder.
This could be an alternative to pausing for X minutes, and would enable one to forget eventually that there ever was an infinite scroll.
It is likely be more difficult than eliminating the entire feed, due to deleting individual blocks of content or intercepting the scroll action that would trigger loading more.
Update: I've found the "Scroll Stop" extension which redirects one after scrolling a certain number of pixels, but still think finding the feed ending after a number of posts would provide a better experience.