Mitigating Browser Throttling

From Melvor Idle

Chrome

Version 96 and Later (Windows)

  1. Create a shortcut for Chrome if one does not already exist. Alternatively, the start menu entry can be changed by right clicking Chrome within the start menu, then clicking "Open file location"
  2. Right click the shortcut, from the context menu click "Properties"
  3. Within the "Target" field, go to the far right side (after the quotation mark), then input a space followed by --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows. The final result should look something like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows
  4. Click "Apply", then "OK" to save changes made to the shortcut
  5. If Chrome is already running, close the application then re-open it using the newly-edited shortcut

Version 95 and Earlier

  1. Go to chrome://flags in the browser address bar
  2. Search for "Calculate window occlusion on Windows" and set value to disabled
  3. (Optional on newer browsers) Search for "Enable occlusion of web contents" and set value to disabled

Edge

  1. Go to edge://flags in the browser address bar
  2. Search for "Calculate window occlusion on Windows" and set value to disabled
  3. (Optional on newer browsers) Search for "Enable occlusion of web contents" and set value to disabled

Firefox

Version 96 and Later

  1. Go to about:config in the browser address bar
  2. Search for dom.timeout.enable_budget_timer_throttling and set value to false
  3. Search for widget.windows.window_occlusion_tracking.enabled and set value to false
  4. Search for dom.min_background_timeout_value_without_budget_throttling and set value to 10

Versions 59 to 95

  1. Go to about:config in the browser address bar
  2. Search for dom.timeout.enable_budget_timer_throttling and set value to false