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What is the difference?

From the website it sounds like the favicon is changed. So the tab doesn’t go away it’s just on pause

Google: “ a discarded tab doesn't go anywhere. We kill it but it's still visible on the Chrome tab strip. If you navigate back to a tab that's been discarded, it'll reload when clicked. Form content, scroll position and so on are saved and restored the same way they would be during forward/backward tab navigation.”

In the future this will be updated to also use a serializer for discarded tabs.