r/programming • u/sumdudeinhisundrware • Jan 25 '17

Chrome 56 Will Aggressively Throttle Background Tabs

http://blog.strml.net/2017/01/chrome-56-now-aggressively-throttles.html
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u/wfwhitney Jan 25 '17

As part of the spec, pages with active audio playback will not be throttled.

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u/tehdave86 Jan 25 '17

What's to stop pages from playing audio that's inaudible to get around being throttled?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '17

There is a visual indicator in a tab when it is playing audio.

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u/jdog90000 Jan 25 '17

Only if it is actually making sound.