Reducing power consumption for background tabs

Post by aeontech » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 11:50 PM UTC

jplayer01 wrote: post #60

aeontech wrote: post #47

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Check out The Great Suspender [1] - not quite what you mean, but it basically unloads the tab and replaces it with a bare bones placeholder after it's been inactive for a bit. When you come back to it, you just click the link and it reloads the url that it had. Super handy if you're in the habit of leaving a few windows with a few dozen tabs each laying around, as I do. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…

Just curious - I wonder why this hasn't been updated since 2015.

I suspect the development is now suspended (heh) in favor of The Great Discarder [1], which uses Chrome's new "discard" api's for improved performance.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarde...

Post by aeontech » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 11:51 PM UTC

joe_the_user wrote: post #59

aeontech wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out The Great Suspender [1] - not quite what you mean, but it basically unloads the tab and replaces it with a bare bones placeholder after it's been inactive for a bit. When you come back to it, you just click the link and it reloads the url that it had. Super handy if you're in the habit of leaving a few windows with a few dozen tabs each laying around, as I do. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…

Yeah no, That just replaces the page with blank placeholder. How hard would it be to replace the page with an image of it's contents? I was thinking about a plugin.

In my case, that would frequently be 200+ images in the background tabs. Not as cheap as a blank page.

For me, the title, favicon and URL are plenty to identify the page, I think it's a good tradeoff.

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