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Pinning a tab should disable throttling. Gives user straightforward control over which tabs are important.

the_watcher 10y ago
I second this. I'm generally a fan of efforts to reduce the CPU usage of background tabs (as one who constantly finds himself with an embarrassing number of open tabs), but I need to be able to control which tabs I absolutely don't want throttled.
ysavir 10y ago
Not the greatest solution, considering Pinning isn't documented anywhere and most Chrome users have no idea it exists. Which is a shame, as pinning is probably my favorite browser feature.
- pimlottc 10y ago
  Including me, thanks for the tip! First time I've ever heard of this feature.
- AceyMan 10y ago
  >Not the greatest solution, considering Pinning isn't documented anywhere and most Chrome users have no idea it exists. -- I might say this is precisely why it'd be smart mode of control: Tying a power user-ish granular feature (throttling) to another power user feature (pinning) seems like a bit of self-selective optimization, while being quite elegant in its simplicity. So, for me, +1 for pinned tabs != throttled.
- pkamb 10y ago
  I'd use Pinning a lot more if it didn't shrink the tab down to its Favicon size. Wish it would also prevent you from closing the tab.
  - madgar 10y ago
    Interestingly, I'd never use pinning if it didn't shrink the tab down. I never have any trouble with keeping my tabs ordered, so the main value pinning gives me is the shrinking.
    - ysavir 10y ago
      Same here. The shrinking keeps my tabs so much more organized.
  - dajohnson89 10y ago
    +1. I just now found out about it. Tried it, saw the tab reduced to a favicon, and will probably never use it till that's fixed. Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message.
    - wutbrodo 10y ago
      > Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message. The pinned tab for GMail has a blue dot for "attention needed". Though this is suboptimal because I think it represents both IMs and new mail.
      - Zarel 10y ago
        Are you sure that's not an extension? On macOS, at least, it's a very subtle gradient color change animation that's hard to notice.
        lexicality 10y ago
        I get a blue dot on my mac
    - fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
      The "reduce to favicon" is my favorite part of pinned tabs: I pin all my slack tabs and other messaging tabs and just watch for the blue dot indicating activity and/or the red circle that indicates a private message (on slack)
- srigi 10y ago
  I like the idea of pinned tab, but since they cannot be moved freely it is only halfway useful for me.
- Zarel 10y ago
  Am I the only one who uses pinning as pseudo-bookmarks? I would rather my pinned tabs be throttled more rather than less.
  - InitialLastName 10y ago
    That's funny... for me the pinned tabs are the ones that are always open (email, Slack, Spotify).
  - x0 10y ago
    I do that too, sort of. My pinned tabs are either VK/Facebook messenger, or things I plan on getting to later (interesting software to install, movies to watch, ...)
- SquareWheel 10y ago
  Am I the only one that finds pinning extremely buggy? I try it every year or two and always have the same result: pinned tabs work great at first, but eventually enter a state where tabs cannot be completely unpinned. Unpinning and restarting my browser brings them right back in pinned state, and it seems like nothing I do short of reinstalling my browser profile corrects this. I've seen this happen on multiple machines, so I feel like it can't just be me.
gdrulia 10y ago
Pinned tabs definitely should be excluded from throttling. Pinning tab for me usually means that I want to keep track of something, which usually is my email, chat client, etc. I don't want to be notified about new email on my phone before I get that notification on PC, which is already happening too often. That's just unnecessary hassle. Though I'm not sure how popular this feature is and I would vote for other ways to turn throttling off, especially for those which prompt user about it.

I second this. I'm generally a fan of efforts to reduce the CPU usage of background tabs (as one who constantly finds himself with an embarrassing number of open tabs), but I need to be able to control which tabs I absolutely don't want throttled.

ysavir 10y ago

Not the greatest solution, considering Pinning isn't documented anywhere and most Chrome users have no idea it exists. Which is a shame, as pinning is probably my favorite browser feature.

pimlottc 10y ago
Including me, thanks for the tip! First time I've ever heard of this feature.
AceyMan 10y ago
>Not the greatest solution, considering Pinning isn't documented anywhere and most Chrome users have no idea it exists. -- I might say this is precisely why it'd be smart mode of control: Tying a power user-ish granular feature (throttling) to another power user feature (pinning) seems like a bit of self-selective optimization, while being quite elegant in its simplicity. So, for me, +1 for pinned tabs != throttled.
pkamb 10y ago
I'd use Pinning a lot more if it didn't shrink the tab down to its Favicon size. Wish it would also prevent you from closing the tab.
- madgar 10y ago
  Interestingly, I'd never use pinning if it didn't shrink the tab down. I never have any trouble with keeping my tabs ordered, so the main value pinning gives me is the shrinking.
  - ysavir 10y ago
    Same here. The shrinking keeps my tabs so much more organized.
- dajohnson89 10y ago
  +1. I just now found out about it. Tried it, saw the tab reduced to a favicon, and will probably never use it till that's fixed. Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message.
  - wutbrodo 10y ago
    > Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message. The pinned tab for GMail has a blue dot for "attention needed". Though this is suboptimal because I think it represents both IMs and new mail.
    - Zarel 10y ago
      Are you sure that's not an extension? On macOS, at least, it's a very subtle gradient color change animation that's hard to notice.
      - lexicality 10y ago
        I get a blue dot on my mac
  - fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
    The "reduce to favicon" is my favorite part of pinned tabs: I pin all my slack tabs and other messaging tabs and just watch for the blue dot indicating activity and/or the red circle that indicates a private message (on slack)
srigi 10y ago
I like the idea of pinned tab, but since they cannot be moved freely it is only halfway useful for me.
Zarel 10y ago
Am I the only one who uses pinning as pseudo-bookmarks? I would rather my pinned tabs be throttled more rather than less.
- InitialLastName 10y ago
  That's funny... for me the pinned tabs are the ones that are always open (email, Slack, Spotify).
- x0 10y ago
  I do that too, sort of. My pinned tabs are either VK/Facebook messenger, or things I plan on getting to later (interesting software to install, movies to watch, ...)
SquareWheel 10y ago
Am I the only one that finds pinning extremely buggy? I try it every year or two and always have the same result: pinned tabs work great at first, but eventually enter a state where tabs cannot be completely unpinned. Unpinning and restarting my browser brings them right back in pinned state, and it seems like nothing I do short of reinstalling my browser profile corrects this. I've seen this happen on multiple machines, so I feel like it can't just be me.

gdrulia 10y ago

Pinned tabs definitely should be excluded from throttling. Pinning tab for me usually means that I want to keep track of something, which usually is my email, chat client, etc. I don't want to be notified about new email on my phone before I get that notification on PC, which is already happening too often. That's just unnecessary hassle. Though I'm not sure how popular this feature is and I would vote for other ways to turn throttling off, especially for those which prompt user about it.