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		tpmx on April 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores... With a modern javascript engine you can throttle the activity of tabs that are not focused. (And browsers do indeed do that. Pretty aggressively, too.)

Marsymars on May 2, 2020 [–]

I wish there was some extension that blocked any non-focused tabs from performing any javascript execution unless I whitelist the domain.

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