[xmonkee]

Why is it that if I have a video playing in another tab, the FPS goes from 60 to 10?

[tobyhinloopen]

Timers and JS get throttled for inactive tabs and windows.

[hoorayimhelping]

requestAnimationFrame stops its timers when tabs become inactive. To fix this, reset timer values when the browser tab receives focus.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...

[nougatbyte]

Its a browser feature to save performance