[Evergreen-general] Changes in Chrome's handling of old tabs

[Johnathon Redmon]

I went into the settings under performance and tweaked it to ignore
evergreen, my work email, and my work calendar. I don't need to
inadvertently lose progress while creating a marc record!

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 4:09 PM Terran McCanna via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> Wow, thank you Galen. That might explain some weird and seemingly
> inconsistent things we've had some staff report.
>
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> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 3:57 PM Galen Charlton via Evergreen-general <
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to bring folks' attention to a change to the Chrome browser that
>> may affect staff workflows.
>>
>> Specifically, the new "Memory Saver" will cause Chrome to deactivate
>> unused tabs that have been sitting a while (where, as far as I can tell, a
>> "while" could mean anywhere from five minutes to an hour). If you go back
>> to one of the deactivated tabs, Chrome will reload the page from scratch.
>>
>> If that tab has the Evergreen staff client, while you'll still be logged
>> in when you open a deactivated tab, other state such as your place in a
>> grid will not carry over.
>>
>> I can imagine that this could cause challenges for anybody who is used to
>> a workflow that involves opening several copies of the staff client in
>> multiple tabs. For example, if you're working from a large Record Bucket,
>> paging through it and doing something with each record, a lunch break might
>> make you lose your place in the bucket.
>>
>> Chrome does offer an option to specify a list of sites that should not
>> have their tabs deactivated.
>>
>> Additional details and commentary can be found here:
>>
>> [1]
>> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/12929150#zippy=%2Cturn-memory-saver-on-or-off%2Ckeep-specific-sites-active
>> [2]
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/chrome-110-will-automatically-discard-background-tabs-heres-how-to-stop-it/
>> [3] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-and-energy-saver-mode/
>>
>> Beyond that, I'd like to ask a question - how are you managing tabs when
>> using the staff client? Does anybody finish the day with dozens of
>> Evergreen tabs open?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
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>> Galen Charlton
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>> Equinox Open Library Initiative
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Johnathon Redmon
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