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I am Paul Kinlan.

A Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google.

Page Lifecycle API - Philip Walton

Paul Kinlan

Philip Walton has an awesome deep dive into a new API the Chrome team has been working on to give you (the developer) control over how to respond when the browser unloads your tabs. Application lifecycle is a key way that modern operating systems manage resources. On Android, iOS, and recent Windows versions, apps can be started and stopped at any time by the OS. This allows these platforms to streamline and reallocate resources where they best benefit the user.

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