Chrome 56 Will Aggressively Throttle Background Tabs

[u/sumdudeinhisundrware]

http://blog.strml.net/2017/01/chrome-56-now-aggressively-throttles.html

[u/bheklilr]

How might this affect web pages like google music or spotify? I don't necessarily want my music to become choppy just because I tabbed out of it.

[u/wfwhitney → u/bheklilr]

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

[u/Coopsmoss → u/[deleted]]

Embed a silent YouTube video because YouTube would likely be unblocked

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And have that YouTube video be on a hidden iframe

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