And what features and/or technologies you’d rather not see in a web browser

Lets make this interesting: you can imagine features ( there’s no wrong answers ) , its not just about features that you already saw in other browsers

  • ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡OPEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    firstly, there’s always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.

    Oh, how so?

    i’ve actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it

    that’s cool, yes a browser should stop using resources when you stop using it ( minimize it ), or using that particular tab by making it inactive, chromium based browsers behave like that if I’m not mistaken

    • @ganymede@lemmy.ml
      1•4 months ago

      how so?

      check here for some basic examples. eg. it can be used to leak info from one context to another.

      there’s ofc legit uses for it too, which is why i argue for user intervention.

      chromium based browsers behave like that if I’m not mistaken

      i may be wrong? but my understanding is they’ll currently limit resources, but execution still takes place? that’s definitely useful, but my argument is for for an option where CPU resources be limited to 0 in background (without user intervention).