Affected scripts

HIT Finder

HIT Catcher

Panda Crazy

Overwatch

HIT Scraper

Turkmaster

HIT Monitor

Affected browsers

Chrome

Chrome Canary

Chromium

Opera (?)

Vivaldi (?)

How to opt-out

Right click the shortcut you use to launch chrome and select properties. Add --disable-background-timer-throttling to the end of the target line, there needs to be a space separating it as pictured below. You will have to exit out of Chrome completely for this to take affect and always use the edited shortcut to launch chrome or the flag will not run.

Code: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-background-timer-throttling

How to know if a tab can to be throttled

Chrome 57 has been released recently. This version introduces background tab throttling to help improve performance. This is important to know about for workers because many important scripts you use can be affected by this.Throttling of background tabs already existed, slowing them down to only be able to run once every second, but now they are going to be limited to an average of 1% CPU usage.(?) denotes unconfirmed, but they are based off of chromium so they should be when their bases get updated to Chromium 57+Enter this into the terminalYou will have to do this everytime you launch Chrome.You can verify that the flag is enabled by going to chrome://version and seeingunder "Command Line".Any background tab that is not playing audio or does not have a WebSocket/WebRTC will be throttled unless you opt-out.HIT Finder would not be throttled since it is in the foregroundHIT Finder would be throttled since it is in the background.Having the scripts in their own window will prevent them from being throttled as long as they aren't minimized. You can have other windows covering them, just do not minimize them to the system tray.