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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by euyyn on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:06PM (#13473834)
GMail and Google Docs work offline too. Surely with things like Firebase it's less complex than inter-tab communication?
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by kuschku on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:36PM (#13474134)
Oh, you’re volunteering to pay for it? How nice of you!

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Cost is a real concern for these things. The tradeoff is running things on client or expensive backend or spending ages building a custom, efficient backend.

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