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> Page not visible? Just stop it. Stop the layout engine, stop the javascript VM. If there was a transfer in progress, let it finish, a page might get the callback when it's active again

Contrats, you just broke the web for anyone doing one of the following:

- listening to music in the browser.

- having a webRTC chat with someone while browsing.

- keep reading another tab while waiting for a page to load.

And I'm probably missing a dozen of other totally legit use-cases.



"- keep reading another tab while waiting for a page to load."

Oh tell me about it. That's just about dead now. I mean, wasn't the point of multi tab browsing that I could do precisely that? Now I load Google Maps on my lethargic internet connection, go do something else for ten minutes, and come back and ... it starts loading when I open. This is on Firefox. Super sad.


Pretty surprising. I don't use Google maps though, but it works fine with all the websites I go daily.




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