Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs – as a feature, not a bug

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by Sindy Cator on January 26, 2017 at 4:34 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google

Google is continuously brushing up its Chrome browser to make it leaner and meaner, but a recently announced still-to-come enhancement has left a slew of developers worried it could affect the proper functioning of their websites. Chromium engineer Alexander Timin has detailed a future implementation that will essentially prompt Chrome to aggressively throttle resources in background tabs in order to prolong battery life and improve the overall browsing performance. The tweak fundamentally aims to moderate poorly behaved pages – inundated with heavy JavaScript ads and analytics scripts – by placing a limit on the processing resources allocated to background activities consumption. This ought to make…