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.

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chii 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The 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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>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.

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Cytobit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I could save even more power if I turn my computer off. I don't mind using power to use my computer.

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RandomTeaParty 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I 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