On: Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs

[EvanAnderson]

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...

[TheRealDunkirk → EvanAnderson]

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?

[jlgaddis → EvanAnderson]

Great, so we can now expect more and more sites to start playing "null" audio as a "workaround".

[NTripleOne → EvanAnderson]

...that would explain why flash files with no sound seem to 'pause' (or at least, run very, very slowly) when in a different tab.

[dumbmatter → EvanAnderson]

I think I might actually try this lol