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Nice - you’ve just increased significantly power consumption of your browser! Browsers will “slow down” various aspects of pages when they’re not visible, like
by madeofpalk 8mo ago
Nice - you’ve just increased significantly power consumption of your browser!
Browsers will “slow down” various aspects of pages when they’re not visible, like animations or timers, to save on battery usage on laptops or phones.
Even if your remove explicit APIs for backgrounding, pages can still use heuristics to detect anyway.
- chii 8mo agoThe user should be making the choice - not the website. The website could be informed about being backgrounded, if the user chooses to. But the user should have the priority in the decision chain - their choice overrides any that the website makes. That is what it means to have control over your own computing.
- salawat 8mo ago>That is what it means to have control over your own computing. Ah, see, there's the problem. The corpo apologists in the room don't want you to have that. The hardware you bought; err, licensed; to them, is their playground.
- RandomTeaParty 8mo agoI mean... What's wrong with youtube tab consuming power "as if it's on screen" if it plays video? As an avid idle game player, I'm tired of opening games in different window and having main window not-fullscreen just for the game to play normally This "tab unloading" is great and all, but not giving us users any control to turn it off is awful
- Cytobit 8mo agoI could save even more power if I turn my computer off. I don't mind using power to use my computer.