Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
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Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
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Re: Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
#2About time. I have been using extensions such as one-tab to prevent background tabs from draining memory.
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#3Oh god, please change the title. It's about timers, not bandwidth. I was already imagining streaming music from Spotify and having hiccups all day.
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#4What are we supposed to do about stuff this? Like I wrote a video game https://play.basketball-gm.com/ that lets you open multiple tabs for viewing multiple screens even while simulation is occurring in another tab. But Chrome recently stopped running the simulation if it's in a background tab. Putting my simulation code in a Shared Worker would be nice, except Safari and IE will never support it and it seems likely to be deprecated soon. Service Workers kill anything that takes over 30 seconds, so no long running processing allowed. What do I do? Go back to writing desktop apps that nobody will install?
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#5Can we aggressively throttle memory usage? Why does it require 300-500MB of ram PER TAB?
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#6Archived copy that doesn't require JS:
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#7Pretty annoying if you want a game to continue running in the background :/
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#8It's awesome to see Chrome trying to improve performance for people with many tabs open, which is many of us.
I use a LOT of tabs, and the best plugin has been The Great Suspender. Highly recommend it for anyone who wants memory & CPU back and keeps many tabs/windows open at once: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
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#9That's a pain in the butt, I wrote a cnc toolpath computer and I don't want the computation to stop while you browse reddit
Re: Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
#10What are we supposed to do about stuff this? Like I wrote a video game https://play.basketball-gm.com/ that lets you open multiple tabs for viewing multiple screens even while simulation is occurring in another tab. But Chrome recently stopped running the simulation if it's in a background tab. Putting my simulation code in a Shared Worker would be nice, except Safari and IE will never support it and it seems likely…
What are you supposed to do? Implement it as a single page application.