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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by rdsubhas on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:54AM (#13473049)
While this is elegant, its still dangerous. There are online payments that could check whether your booking is complete in the background by periodically firing ajax calls, bulk updates or uploads, etc.
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by tene on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:20PM (#13485608)
If those sites are using more than 10% of a CPU to do it, then they've made a catastrophic error, and I'd be glad for Chrome to protect my battery from that.
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by rhizome on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:30PM (#13473450)
The business decisions a website makes are none of my business, and if they want to use a polling model for billing because $REASONS then that's their problem.
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by Kiro on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:42PM (#13473562)
How is that relevant to throttling?
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