Google-chrome – is there chrome extension that restricts javascript execution to the tab in focus

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Often I have lots of tabs open.

Often, these tabs can be seen cheerfully burbling away, doing whatever snake stuff Google thinks it should be doing on my system.

I then check my IDS to see what happened. This process gets a bit tiresome, and during my thoughts on this general topic it occurred to me to ask:

Is there a way to have javascript only work for the tab in focus?

For example, on this page we are looking at, javascript would be working, but on all other tabs, nada.

Is this even possible?

Best Answer

No. The current Chromium Extensions API is very restrictive which leads to poor extensions for Chrome (Compared to Firefox). The solution is to use Firefox4 or Waterfox4

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I wanted something like this but I only wanted to pause the JavaScript v8 context for inactive tabs as this is less disruptive to the page than turning JavaScript off. As what I found also somewhat answers the OP's question I'll put what I found here.

I found out that doing that was possible with chrome.experimental.debugger and they provide an sample extension which uses the debugger which creates an icon which allows one to pause and unpause the current tab.

I haven't yet tested whether that could be adapted to automatically pause tabs when inactive and unpause them when they become active.

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