Google Chrome nearly introduced feature that would have crippled web apps like Slack and Discord

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google has just released the latest version of its Chrome browser, but it almost included a feature that could “break the web”. As explained by Samuel Reed on the STRML blog, Google intended to limit the resources of background tabs by giving them a “budget” and throttling them when their activity exceeded that, in an attempt to boost battery life. “This will break the web.” The move would have crippled a number of web apps, such as Slack and Discord, as they carry out a lot of their work behind the scenes.