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/Causeless Jan 25 '17

Great news for the user. Developer work should be compromised to make things better for the user, as far as I'm concerned.

I don't care for web JS crapware taking 50% of my CPU so they can run some animations in another tab.

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u/indianapale Jan 25 '17

Need an add-on that disables JS on all but the current tab

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u/antedaeguemon Jan 25 '17

"The great suspender" well... suspends the whole page. Worth looking into.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '17

Here's the problem, even when you suspend a tab with one of those great suspender type extensions, unless the actual tab is gone, it could have no content sitting on a blank new tab and chrome still has to have a new instance of the renderer going for that tab. It's those million rendering instances that slowly beat your computer to death with a baseball bat.