Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

Posted by vidyesh 9/12/2025

70 points | 38 commentspage 2

auggierose 9/12/2025|

I was aware of that for browsers; is this also true for Electron?

ivanmontillam 9/13/2025|

Electron is just a packager for Chromium, with the minimum code necessary to achieve that objective.

Technically it is a browser. Unless I am making a serious logic flaw here, it should be applicable.

high_priest 9/13/2025||

Ok, but is the eluctron runtime freed of this throttling limitation?

auggierose 9/13/2025||

Yes, that is the question. There seems to be no good reason to keep that limitation in the packaged browser.

fatih-erikli-cg 9/12/2025|

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