Here’s an idea for Web browsers. When the browser window loses focus, stop everything. Freeze all threads, animated images, scripts, plugins… everything. This would be most useful as a setting that could be enabled and disabled at will. Sometimes I’d just like the browser to just simmer down while my attention is elsewhere. No need to be AJAXing around and stuff.
Thoughts?
That would be wonderful. Too bad it’s too much of a niche geek tool to warrant mainstream development, I think. Realistically I can only imagine this being implemented as an automated feature, transparent to the user.
Comment by ændrük — January 1, 2012 @ 11:15 am PST
Yep. Mobile Safari does this, that’s where I got the idea. I started questioning the value of background browser processing.
Comment by adam — January 3, 2012 @ 12:12 pm PST