Are there plans to exempt websites running/installed as a PWA from this?

On Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 3:20:49 PM UTC-3 François Doray wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Here are my responses:
>
> 1. An origin trial will allow Web developers to opt out of freezing. In 
> addition to provide a quick way to prevent breakages, it will help us 
> identify background use cases that might need dedicated APIs for support.
>
> 2. A blog post documenting the freezing policy and the origin trial will 
> be published before the stable experiment.
>
> 3. I'm okay with adjusting the release schedule (e.g., "<10% in 133, 100% 
> in 134") to help enterprise admins diagnose issues.
>
> 4. We'll track usage of the "Always keep these sites active" list in 
> chrome://settings/performance. If usage increases significantly with 
> freezing, we'll investigate and adjust accordingly. This list should be 
> helpful to users with rare use cases, not a common solution.
>
> 5. Mail/chat/calendar apps shouldn't be affected, as the "high CPU usage" 
> threshold will be significantly higher than their normal usage. If 
> necessary, they can use the origin trial opt-out (short-term) or the Progress 
> API <https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/progress-notification> 
> (long-term) 
> to declare CPU intensive workloads and avoid being frozen. They can also 
> use the Push API to deliver notifications even when they aren't loaded, are 
> crashed or are frozen (we're interested to learn about any hurdles 
> preventing apps from adopting the Push API).
>
> 6. Tabs with notification permission will be opted out of freezing 
> initially. We aim to remove this opt-out eventually, as notifications 
> typically don't require high CPU usage. For high CPU needs, the origin 
> trial (short-term) or the Progress API 
> <https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/progress-notification> (long-term) 
> are 
> preferred solutions.
>
> 7. Pages with active WebRTC connections will be opted out, so 
> videoconferencing apps will continue working, even if they don't capture 
> from the camera/microphone/screen. No opt-out is planned for WebSockets or 
> Web Transport, as they don't usually indicate CPU-intensive background 
> functionality. The origin trial or Progress API can be used to avoid 
> freezing despite running CPU-intensive workloads.
>
> A note on the Progress API 
> <https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/progress-notification>: We 
> want the Progress API to be a good way for pages to declare their need for 
> background resources (CPU/network) when other APIs (WebRTC, audio playback, 
> Web USB, etc.) don't apply. It will be tied to UI (TBD) so that users 
> remain in control. Besides opting out of freezing, usage of the API can 
> increase CPU/network priority. We know some pages need background resources 
> without having progress information (e.g., stock market dashboards, 
> cryptocurrency miners). We'll ensure the Progress API (which might be 
> renamed) covers these cases.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> François
>
> On Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 11:12:14 AM UTC-5 Alex Russell wrote:
>
>> Presumably we would want to treat Web Transport the same way as Web 
>> Sockets here, whatever we decide?
>>
>> On Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 12:20:50 PM UTC-8 
>> philipp...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>
>>> what about WebSockets? Wondering about video conferencing websites that 
>>> use Websockets as signaling transport to establish a WebRTC connection but 
>>> do not open camera/microphone or the underlying connection until that is 
>>> necessary.
>>> (I do not expect such applications to use a lot of CPU in that state so 
>>> might be fine)
>>>
>>> Am Mi., 4. Dez. 2024 um 06:34 Uhr schrieb Daniel Bratell <
>>> brat...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>> Before "notifications" have been used as a signal of a page that wants to 
>>>> run in the background. I didn't see it listed here. The other use case 
>>>> that 
>>>> has been mentioned in similar threads is stock market applications which 
>>>> seem to both want to run in the background and do non-trivial work of some 
>>>> kind.
>>>>
>>>> As for possible pitfalls I do wonder what happens on very slow or 
>>>> throttled computers where any work at all will be interpreted as "high cpu 
>>>> usage". 
>>>>
>>>> But I think this overall is a very reasonable feature for a browser. 
>>>> There will be challenges in, tuning, UI and user communication, but 
>>>> nothing 
>>>> that I consider a feature blocker.
>>>>
>>>> LGTM2
>>>>
>>>> /Daniel
>>>> On 2024-12-04 03:45, Vladimir Levin wrote:
>>>>
>>> You've mentioned things like mail/calendar should still work. Is this 
>>>> because the expected background CPU usage is low or is it that it's using 
>>>> some API that directly opts it out of the freezing behavior? I'm 
>>>> particularly worried about things like calendar that don't _typically_ 
>>>> need 
>>>> to do any work, but _occasionally_ want to show a notification that you 
>>>> have an upcoming meeting. If there happens to be some background work 
>>>> happening in those that causes it to be frozen, that seems like it could 
>>>> be 
>>>> a hard to discover problem (due to the fact that it maybe only 
>>>> occasionally 
>>>> uses too much CPU) and quite painful for the user. In general, any site 
>>>> that can do background work and notifies the user via notifications seems 
>>>> like it could be problematic 
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vlad
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 7:38 PM Rick Byers <rby...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> LGTM1 to ship including a deprecation trial
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024, 5:00 p.m. François Doray <fdo...@google.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, November 29, 2024 at 3:13:39 PM UTC-5 Rick Byers wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tl;dr: Just one remaining question about providing a developer 
>>>>>> opt-out (like a deprecation trial).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 12:25 PM Francois Pierre Doray <
>>>>>> fdo...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Rick,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for raising your concerns regarding troubleshooting issues 
>>>>>> caused by Tab Freezing on Energy Saver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Does Chrome have any visual indication that a tab has been frozen?
>>>>>> There is no indication that a tab is frozen. However, the feature 
>>>>>> only operates when Energy Saver is active, signaled by a leaf icon next 
>>>>>> to 
>>>>>> the omnibox. When Energy Saver is first activated or when the leaf icon 
>>>>>> is 
>>>>>> clicked, a bubble indicates that "Background activity and some visual 
>>>>>> effects may be limited".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ah cool, I had never noticed that before myself. I see there's also a 
>>>>>> prominent "turn off now" button:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> That seems like a significant mitigation to me. If someone is having 
>>>>>> trouble with some site it seems like there's a decent chance that they 
>>>>>> (or 
>>>>>> their IT support people) would notice this indicator, click it, then 
>>>>>> click 
>>>>>> "turn off now" and confirm that fixes the issue. From there I'd imagine 
>>>>>> troubleshooting would be pretty easy (google searches for "chrome energy 
>>>>>> saver" would point to the per-site opt-out etc.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We avoided a frozen tab indicator because in the long term (2-3 
>>>>>> years), we plan to freeze most background tabs, to ensure that they 
>>>>>> don't 
>>>>>> steal resources from the foreground tab. At that point, there will be a 
>>>>>> visual indication for tabs that are *not* frozen (e.g. playing audio 
>>>>>> = speaker icon, using the progress notification API 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/progress-notification> to 
>>>>>> do arbitrary work = UI TBD). 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I love that long-term plan, thanks! Personally I'd love to have a 
>>>>>> mode where pages get to run in the background only if they show such an 
>>>>>> icon or in response to me granting their origin that permission. That's 
>>>>>> not 
>>>>>> behind a flag or anything yet, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Pages get to run in the background only if [they show some UI]" : In 
>>>>>> 2-3 years, we'd like this to be the default behavior, due to the 
>>>>>> expected 
>>>>>> foreground tab speed up and battery savings. It's not yet behind a flag.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > How discoverable is it for users that they can add a site to an 
>>>>>> exclusion list?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Users can add sites to the exclusion list via the "Performance" tab 
>>>>>> in Chrome settings (direct link: chrome://settings/performance), 
>>>>>> under "Always keep these sites active." This is also mentioned in the 
>>>>>> help 
>>>>>> article <https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/12929150> (will be 
>>>>>> updated for this launch).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah I saw that, and I like that the UI contains a "current sites" 
>>>>>> list rather than requiring copying URLs. But that alone certainly is not 
>>>>>> discoverable for a user who simply has a broken web page and doesn't 
>>>>>> know 
>>>>>> why. But given that disabling energy saver is very discoverable, that's 
>>>>>> good enough for me as long as this is coupled just to energy saver. I 
>>>>>> guess 
>>>>>> you won't really have a way to measure how much site compat issues lead 
>>>>>> users to disable energy saver, eh? I imagine most users disabling it 
>>>>>> will 
>>>>>> do so for the performance / visual quality concerns, not site compat 
>>>>>> reasons.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We could run a HaTS survey to understand what leads users to add 
>>>>>> sites to the exclusion list. Let me know what you think and I can 
>>>>>> prioritize this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not important for the launch process, so up to you. Not needed 
>>>>> from my perspective.
>>>>>
>>>>> While discoverability is limited, most users won't need this feature. 
>>>>>> Typical mail/chat/calendar/phone/drive/music 
>>>>>> streaming/videoconferencing/... apps will either not exceed the CPU 
>>>>>> threshold for freezing or be opted out via API usage. Sites requiring 
>>>>>> high 
>>>>>> background CPU usage under Energy Saver (outside of audio/video calls, 
>>>>>> device control...) can direct users to the Chrome settings page or 
>>>>>> recommend using this policy 
>>>>>> <https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_ca/policies/#TabDiscardingExceptions>
>>>>>>  to 
>>>>>> enterprise admins (policy doc will be updated for this launch).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes I'm definitely convinced that "most" (probably even >99.99%) of 
>>>>>> users won't have a problem - your design is great for that, thank you! 
>>>>>> But 
>>>>>> what I've learned from my incident post-mortem responsibilities is that 
>>>>>> it's the ~0.0001% of users that we have to really focus on to reduce the 
>>>>>> risk of most OMGs. Ask Robert about why I'm afraid of his wrath around 
>>>>>> this 
>>>>>> next time you see him in the office :-).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Realistically I'd expect most such sites to just hack in some API 
>>>>>> usage that tickles your heuristic (like take an IndexedDB lock just for 
>>>>>> the 
>>>>>> purposes of being kept alive). That 's going to be much more effective 
>>>>>> for 
>>>>>> them than trying to direct users to take some manual steps, right? That 
>>>>>> seems unfortunate to me, as it will make your life harder in driving 
>>>>>> down 
>>>>>> the exceptions. Experience with this sort of thing is a big part of the 
>>>>>> motivation behind our guidance 
>>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RC-pBBvsazYfCNNUSkPqAVpSpNJ96U8trhNkfV0v9fk/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.glc7fyugcipe>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> for providing explicit developer opt-outs for breaking changes 
>>>>>> (especially 
>>>>>> interventions like this). Sure, there is some risk of an explicit 
>>>>>> opt-out 
>>>>>> being abused but that risk isn't necessarily any greater than abuse of 
>>>>>> your 
>>>>>> heuristic, and at least you can more easily measure and track it and 
>>>>>> update 
>>>>>> behavior as necessary for any "arms race" with abusive sites. Have you 
>>>>>> considered offering developers a deprecation trial 
>>>>>> <https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/#deprecation-trial> 
>>>>>> to 
>>>>>> reduce the risk of them abusing your heuristics and get you contact info 
>>>>>> for the developers who feel they must opt-out?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hadn't considered a deprecation trial, but I think it's a good idea 
>>>>>> to reduce the risk of Web developers abusing our heuristics. In terms of 
>>>>>> process, should I create a "Feature removal" entry at 
>>>>>> chromestatus.com or can we handle this as part of this intent?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Great! Yeah we can just use this intent, no need for extra overhead. 
>>>>> And of course it's important to document how to use the trial in the blog 
>>>>> post.
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>> We think that requiring some effort to allow high background CPU 
>>>>>> usage under Energy Saver is reasonable, as it can significantly impact 
>>>>>> battery life and contradicts Energy Saver's purpose (note: Energy Saver 
>>>>>> is 
>>>>>> only available on battery power, activates when battery level is below 
>>>>>> 20% 
>>>>>> by default).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I suspect that most impacted users would simply disable energy saver 
>>>>>> completely rather than make the extra effort to discover and use the 
>>>>>> site-specific opt-out. But that's fine - both settings aren't hard to 
>>>>>> find, 
>>>>>> and if you see a lot of users disabling energy saver then you can do 
>>>>>> some 
>>>>>> research to see if better per-site controls might help reduce that 
>>>>>> (though 
>>>>>> we might be stuck for the users who have already opted out completely). 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "though we might be stuck for the users who have already opted out 
>>>>>> completely": If we observe any significant difference in the number of 
>>>>>> Energy Saver activations between the Control/Enabled groups, or if we 
>>>>>> observe an upward trend of users without Energy Saver after the launch, 
>>>>>> we'll investigate why and make adjustments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh of course, that makes sense - thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> > Is the plan for Chrome 133 to be fully at 100%, with 132 still well 
>>>>>> below that?
>>>>>> The plan is to experiment on 1% of stable users in Chrome 133 and 
>>>>>> then ramp up gradually as we gain confidence that the feature is well 
>>>>>> tuned. The feature is already under experimentation in Canary/Dev.  We 
>>>>>> intend to expand Tab Freezing beyond Energy Saver in the future, taking 
>>>>>> into account lessons learned from this limited scope launch, but that 
>>>>>> will 
>>>>>> be handled under new Intents.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, we've come to appreciate that that pattern increases the risk 
>>>>>> somewhat because it makes it even harder for IT admins and support 
>>>>>> personnel to reproduce and action site compat issues their users are 
>>>>>> complaining about. I don't think we've yet come up with some 
>>>>>> well-informed 
>>>>>> guidance for mitigating this risk, so I won't ask for something 
>>>>>> different 
>>>>>> (eg. could keep to <10% in 133 and then go 100% in 134). But it's 
>>>>>> something 
>>>>>> to keep an eye out for in customer reports and perhaps inform our future 
>>>>>> guidance, so please let me know (here or privately) if it ends up 
>>>>>> showing 
>>>>>> up as an issue in customer reports or not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds good.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Will the blog post you mentioned be published prior to 133 beta 
>>>>>> (Jan 15)?
>>>>>> That's the goal, though DevRel hasn't confirmed a date. I'll check in 
>>>>>> with them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, thanks. If the blog post gets delayed, please hold off on 
>>>>>> extending the experiment to stable until the blog post is live.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds good.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have a nice day,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> François
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 10:20:09 AM UTC-5 Rick Byers wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I evaluated this intent relative to our compat principles 
>>>>>> <https://bit.ly/blink-compat> and overall think you've done an 
>>>>>> excellent job mitigating the compat risks. In particular the user 
>>>>>> controls, 
>>>>>> developer-influencable heuristics and enterprise opt-out seem likely to 
>>>>>> be 
>>>>>> significant mitigations. I'm also confident that you will be proactive 
>>>>>> in 
>>>>>> monitoring for issues and being responsive to feedback. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Heuristics like the energy saver and CPU threshold seem great to me 
>>>>>> on balance, but I'm also nervous that they will make troubleshooting 
>>>>>> rare 
>>>>>> but severe issues harder (especially since these signals can't really be 
>>>>>> monitored via web page telemetry). We've learned from one recent 
>>>>>> incident 
>>>>>> that sometimes the rarest incidents can be extremely bad - eg. causing a 
>>>>>> serious business disruption for one single organization but not more 
>>>>>> widely 
>>>>>> (making support for that organization much harder). In such cases, 
>>>>>> discoverability and understandability of the issue (including by skilled 
>>>>>> IT 
>>>>>> support personnel) is key to avoiding extended outages. With that in 
>>>>>> mind, 
>>>>>> I have a couple questions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does Chrome have any visual indication that a tab has been frozen? 
>>>>>> How discoverable is it for users that they can add a site to an 
>>>>>> exclusion 
>>>>>> list?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is the plan for Chrome 133 to be fully at 100%, with 132 still well 
>>>>>> below that? I'm just wondering to what extent someone looking into 
>>>>>> website 
>>>>>> logs for an issue will be able to detect a clear correlation with Chrome 
>>>>>> 133 (increasing the chance that they reach out to us or find this 
>>>>>> mentioned 
>>>>>> in the chrome 133 blog post)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will the blog post you mentioned be published prior to 133 beta (Jan 
>>>>>> 15)? I see it's mentioned 
>>>>>> <https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7679408?hl=en&co=CHROME_ENTERPRISE._Product%3DChromeBrowser#top:~:text=131%20on%20Android-,Tab%20freezing%20on%20Energy%20saver,-When%20Energy%20saver>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> in Chrome 131 enterprise release notes already, thank you!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>    Rick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 3:11 PM Chromestatus <
>>>>>> ad...@cr-status.appspotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Contact emails fdo...@chromium.org, shas...@chromium.org 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Explainer None 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Specification https://wicg.github.io/page-lifecycle 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Design docs 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTJifh_erMX4_CTKgKljlj9O4SAmGam5W61FBHeasGI/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Summary 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When Energy Saver is active, Chrome will freeze a "browsing context 
>>>>>> group" that has been hidden and silent for >5 minutes if any subgroup of 
>>>>>> same-origin frames within it exceeds a CPU usage threshold, unless it: - 
>>>>>> Provides audio- or video-conferencing functionality (detected via 
>>>>>> microphone, camera or screen/window/tab capture or an RTCPeerConnection 
>>>>>> with an 'open' RTCDataChannel or a 'live' MediaStreamTrack). - Controls 
>>>>>> an 
>>>>>> external device (detected via usage of Web USB, Web Bluetooth, Web HID 
>>>>>> or 
>>>>>> Web Serial). - Holds a Web Lock or an IndexedDB connection that blocks a 
>>>>>> version update or a transaction on a different connection. Freezing 
>>>>>> consists of pausing execution. It is formally defined in the Page 
>>>>>> Lifecycle 
>>>>>> API. The CPU usage threshold will be calibrated to freeze approximately 
>>>>>> 10% 
>>>>>> of background tabs when Energy Saver is active.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Blink component Blink>Scheduling 
>>>>>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EScheduling>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TAG review None 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TAG review status Not applicable 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Risks 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interoperability and Compatibility 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interoperability: This feature does not expose new capabilities to 
>>>>>> the Web, so it has low chances of creating situations in which the same 
>>>>>> HTML/CSS/Js/... behaves differently in different browsers. That being 
>>>>>> said, 
>>>>>> we invite other browsers vendors that already shipped "tab freezing" to 
>>>>>> share and discuss their opt-out rules, which will help offer consistent 
>>>>>> behavior for web developers across browsers, avoiding situations where a 
>>>>>> site's background functionality works correctly in some browsers but not 
>>>>>> others. Compatibility: This feature may affect existing sites with 
>>>>>> background functionality. However, breaking some functionality to extend 
>>>>>> battery life is in line with user expectations when "Energy Saver" is 
>>>>>> active. We're interested in Web developer feedback to adjust our 
>>>>>> opt-outs 
>>>>>> and minimize avoidable breakages. "Energy Saver" can be disabled via the 
>>>>>> the "BatterySaverModeAvailability" enterprise policy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Gecko*: Under consideration (
>>>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/87) 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *WebKit*: No signal 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Web developers*: No signals In the past, Web developers expressed 
>>>>>> concerns about freezing, because it made it difficult to implement 
>>>>>> background functionality that users care about in a reliable way (e.g. 
>>>>>> notification for calendar event). By freezing only pages that use a lot 
>>>>>> of 
>>>>>> CPU and only when Energy Saver is active, breakages that were reported 
>>>>>> in 
>>>>>> the past are mitigated. Additionally, we will listen to Web developers 
>>>>>> feedback on multiple channels (crbug, blink-dev, stack overflow, 
>>>>>> twitter, 
>>>>>> github) and make adjustments to heuristics if we find that background 
>>>>>> functionality that users care about is broken. Users may deactivate 
>>>>>> Energy 
>>>>>> Saver or manually opt-out sites at chrome://settings/performance 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Other signals*: Chrome on Android freezes background tabs after 5 
>>>>>> minutes (
>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/NKtuFxLsKgo/m/brL3bfS5CAAJ).
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> Chrome on desktop and Android freezes pages before putting them in the 
>>>>>> BFCache. Chrome on desktop freezes tabs in collapsed tab groups. Edge 
>>>>>> freezes background tabs after a configurable timeout (
>>>>>> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/sleeping-tabs-at-work?form=MT00D8).
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ergonomics 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No Ergonomics Risks identified.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Activation 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No action is required to support browsers that don't freeze pages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Security 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A frame can observe when it is frozen, either directly (via the 
>>>>>> “freeze” event) or indirectly (timer runs later than expected, server 
>>>>>> doesn’t receive a ping…). When the decision to freeze a frame depends on 
>>>>>> observations made on other cross-origin frames (crossing CPU usage 
>>>>>> threshold, using Web API that opt-outs from freezing) there is a risk of 
>>>>>> leaking information across origins. Multiple solutions were considered 
>>>>>> to 
>>>>>> balance security and ergonomy requirements. We finally landed on 
>>>>>> "freezing 
>>>>>> a browsing context group based on independent observations made on 
>>>>>> groups 
>>>>>> of same-origin/same-page frames in that browsing context group". Pros & 
>>>>>> cons + All frames on a page are in the same “frozen” state (does not 
>>>>>> break 
>>>>>> Web devs assumptions). + All frames that can synchronously script each 
>>>>>> other are in the same “frozen” state (does not break Web devs 
>>>>>> assumptions). 
>>>>>> + Not aggregating CPU usage across origins minimizes leaks, because an 
>>>>>> attacker can’t vary its own CPU usage to precisely measure the CPU usage 
>>>>>> of 
>>>>>> another origin. - Leaks Web API usage across cross-origin frames (a 
>>>>>> frame 
>>>>>> can learn that a cross-origin frame in the "browsing context group" uses 
>>>>>> or 
>>>>>> doesn't use one of the APIs that prevents freezing depending on whether 
>>>>>> it 
>>>>>> itself gets frozen).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WebView application risks 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such 
>>>>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a desktop-only feature which does not affect Webview.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Debuggability 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The frozen state of a tab is displayed in the "Lifecycle state" 
>>>>>> column of chrome://discards. Whether a page can be frozen and why 
>>>>>> (e.g. usage of WebRTC) is displayed in the "Is freezable" column of 
>>>>>> chrome://discards. The #freezing-on-energy-saver and 
>>>>>> #freezing-on-energy-saver-testing features at about:flags can be 
>>>>>> used to test this intervention. It is also possible to manually freeze a 
>>>>>> tab via chrome://discards to verify how it reacts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, 
>>>>>> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Chrome for Android already freezes pages in the background (not tied 
>>>>>> to Energy Saver). This proposal brings freezing to desktop.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests 
>>>>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>>>>>> ? No 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Flag name on about://flags freezing-on-energy-saver 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Finch feature name FreezingOnBatterySaver 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Requires code in //chrome? False 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tracking bug https://crbug.com/325954772 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Launch bug https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4282880 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Measurement This feature doesn't introduce new APIs that web pages 
>>>>>> need to adopt. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Availability expectation This feature doesn't introduce new APIs 
>>>>>> that other browsers need to make available. It expands the sets of 
>>>>>> conditions under which Chrome may freeze tabs (previously, only tabs in 
>>>>>> collapsed tab groups could be frozen). 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adoption expectation This feature doesn't introduce new APIs that 
>>>>>> web pages need to adopt. Web pages may listen to the freeze/resume 
>>>>>> events 
>>>>>> to react to freezing, but it's not an issue if a web page doesn't. These 
>>>>>> events are already dispatched when a tab in a collapsed tab group is 
>>>>>> frozen. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adoption plan In collaboration with DevRel, we will publish an 
>>>>>> article covering the conditions under which freezing is triggered and 
>>>>>> possible remediations for broken background use cases. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Non-OSS dependencies 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open 
>>>>>> source repository and its open-source dependencies to function?
>>>>>> No 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Estimated milestones Shipping on desktop 133 DevTrial on desktop 132 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anticipated spec changes 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat 
>>>>>> or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github 
>>>>>> issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution 
>>>>>> may 
>>>>>> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure 
>>>>>> of 
>>>>>> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
>>>>>> This feature does not modify the spec. It changes the conditions 
>>>>>> under which tabs are frozen in Chrome. Those conditions are expected to 
>>>>>> evolve over time. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status 
>>>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5158599457767424?gate=5076873410772992 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Links to previous Intent discussions Intent to Prototype: 
>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAG9b2qVcRLRWXUz61AkRWi%2BkaOJwgUK8bNCRBG6LOpqgOd%2BvSw%40mail.gmail.com
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> Ready for Trial: 
>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Xu1C7WhoGm4/m/_9U_kLHDAwAJ
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
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