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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by EvanAnderson on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:37AM (#13472839)
It would be dodgy hack, but another HN comment made reference to a statement that tabs playing audio are always considered "foregrounded": https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:42PM (#13473568)
Their own Google Play would be impacted otherwise. Good to hear, since the only thing I use Chrome for is Google Play (and any other, one-off, old-fashioned sites which require Flash). Why in the world does Google still require Flash for... anything?
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by jlgaddis on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:46PM (#13477702)
Great, so we can now expect more and more sites to start playing "null" audio as a "workaround".
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by NTripleOne on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:17PM (#13473310)
...that would explain why flash files with no sound seem to 'pause' (or at least, run very, very slowly) when in a different tab.
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by dumbmatter on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:43AM (#13472917)
I think I might actually try this lol
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