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
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Specification
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default in:
- Chrome for desktop release 68
- Chrome for Android release 68
- Android WebView release 68
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
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Last updated on 2020-11-09