Re: [Gnash-dev] A thought about performance

[strk]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0200, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote:

> One possible way may be to automatically pause those instances which are
> in background tabs and thus unseen. Probably some heuristic diagnostics
> should prevent this if there is any network transfer or the instance is
> playing sound, or such.
> 
> What do you think about this?

I think this would be a sensible feature.
IIRC we tried but had a problem with browsers not sending the correct
event down the road thus leaving us in a state of ignorance about
being foreground or background. I could be wrong, or things could
have changed. Anyway if you want to try that out we'd be glad to accept
patches.

--strk;

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