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The articles title seems click-baity. The browser is still open, it's just opened a different, smaller window to run it in. The title sounds like its forked off
by kiddico 9y ago
The articles title seems click-baity. The browser is still open, it's just opened a different, smaller window to run it in. The title sounds like its forked off a different process or something to continue after your browser process tree is killed.
What I don't understand is how a site is able to adjust the size, and position of the browser window.
- supermdguy 9y agoThey're not modifying the size of the original window; they're using JavaScript to open a pop-up window with a specified size, and then hide it.
- exikyut 9y agoUgh. So they didn't even make the effort to do this in a ServiceWorker?! I mean, if you did it that way, you'd be able to use multiple cores and hash somewhat faster. But then these are people who think they'll get anywhere by hashing in _JavaScript_, so....
- abraham 9y agoChrome will only let a ServiceWorker do work for a max of five minutes. They would still need a hidden window to trigger a new event every five minutes or get the user to allow web push messages so a server can trigger events. https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq/service-worker-security-faq#TOC-Do-Service-Workers-live-forever- https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq...
- exikyut 9y agoTIL! Thanks for the info, that's useful to know...