Freezing CPU intensive background tabs in Chrome

[fdoray]

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/freezing-on-energy-saver

[westurner]

How could browsers let app developers know that their app requires excessive resources?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40861851 :

>> - [ ] UBY: Browsers: Strobe the tab or extension button when it's beyond (configurable) resource usage thresholds

>> - [ ] UBY: Browsers: Vary the {color, size, fill} of the tabs according to their relative resource utilization

>> - [ ] ENH,SEC: Browsers: specify per-tab/per-domain resource quotas: CPU,