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Page Lifecycle API

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 68)

Intent stage

None

Summary

With large numbers of web apps (and tabs) running, critical resources such as memory, CPU, battery, network etc easily get oversubscribed, leading to a bad end user experience. Web lifecycle is a proposal to enable system initiated Tab Discarding and CPU Stopping -- to effectively manage resources for optimal user experience. See explainer: https://github.com/spanicker/web-lifecycle/blob/master/README.md

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://wicg.github.io/page-lifecycle/spec.html
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive

Docs: https://github.com/spanicker/web-lifecycle/blob/master/README.md

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