Building a more power-efficient browser

Post by dflock » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 5:20 AM UTC

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In Safari, which slows background JavaScript down or stops it altogether, music stops playing occasionally on Soundcloud when a song ends. The only option to prevent this is to make the Soundcloud tab the sole tab in the browser window. The window can be in the background but the tab is not treated as background tab because it is the active tab in the window.

I personally would be happy if all background tabs would stop completely if they don't have focus for a configured amount of time, and don't have a network connection currently in use. To keep a tab active pin it, those tabs will be immune from that. And not for power consumption but simply for browser speed!

Post by JoBrad » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 5:59 AM UTC

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Seriously why on Earth does this happen? Even if Edge ends up being more power-efficient the rest of the OS (Windows 10) is going to ensure that I will get no more than 3 hours of battery life on my laptop.

I'm not certain what causes it for you, but for me it was microsoft's antimalware scans. These are supposed to run only in 'idle' mode but for whatever reason were running while I was using my computer. What's worse is the automatic OS restarts that seem to also think I'm in idle mode.

Post by piyush_soni » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 6:24 AM UTC

Post by piyush_soni » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 6:29 AM UTC

dflock wrote: post #72

ars wrote: post #61

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I personally would be happy if all background tabs would stop completely if they don't have focus for a configured amount of time, and don't have a network connection currently in use. To keep a tab active pin it, those tabs will be immune from that. And not for power consumption but simply for browser speed!

There's a chrome extension called 'the great suspender' that does exactly that.

Post by kylealden » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 6:42 AM UTC

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Still it shows what's done just to make somebody's bonus (or just prestige in the meetings?) thanks to the change in the telemetry reports. Luckily both Safari and Firefox don't animate it. And if I'm not wrong, Safari was the first to have it, years ago, at the time Jobs was there. Never animated. Anyway, if the feature is useful, people will use it. If it's not, they won't. Not making the whole experience a "big ad…

People will use it, but only if they know it's there. I've met a ton of Safari users who have no idea what that thing is or even that it's there in the first place. They tend to love it after I pointed out to them. Microsoft is probably doing the right thing here.