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

[Lolis, John]

Note that this functionality was originally provided by the Chrome
extension, The Great Suspender.  While the original version was considered
safe, the latest version is considered malicious; however, there's a fork
of the last known safe version available at Github:
https://github.com/ITTakes2/thegreatersuspender

It works fine with the Chrome engine based browers I've used, Vivaldi and
Brave.  It also allows you to exclude sites, tabs with unsaved form input,
etc.  For those of you who are like me and eschew Chrome but would like
this memory-saving feature, this is a great alternative.

John Lolis
Coordinator of Computer Systems

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On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 16:34, Johnathon Redmon via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> 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:
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>> Wow, thank you Galen. That might explain some weird and seemingly
>> inconsistent things we've had some staff report.
>>
>>
>> Terran McCanna, PINES Program Manager
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>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 3:57 PM Galen Charlton via Evergreen-general <
>> evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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