Low Power Mode - Special icon on tabs

BenjaminLacy

Problem:
Lower Power mode stops dynamic websites from updating the title after being suspended

This give the user false sense of real-time state.

Examples of interactive page titles:

Facebook -> (20+) Facebook
Twitch -> (XX) Twitch
Cryptowat.ch -> 1234.55 USDT-USD

Proposed Solution
After site is suspended, fallback to the original document's title (before being dynamically updated)

This would result in

Title before first HTTP Request -> facebook.com
Title after html parsing -> Facebook
Title after Interactive -> (20+) Facebook
** NEW ** Title after Lower power mode suspending -> Facebook

Vlad

BenjaminLacy This would be hard to do. I wonder if there is something else we can do to identify suspended tabs?

gp

Any approach I can think of would likely not appeal to some people, or not work for every site.

One idea could be to grey off the faivicon. Which assumes the site's favicon isn't already B&W or greyscale...
Another could be to replace the favicon with a small "zzz" icon. Which is perhaps quite ugly?

I imagine for some users, this will be a big issue, whereas for others they will not care and won't want the visual change. If there's enough space, a "zzz" could be added to the right hand side of the tab icon, but that's maybe not as minimal and elegant as would be ideal.

Vlad

gp I like the idea of a special suspended tab icon. Anything from SFSymbols look adequate? https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/

gp

Vlad

As a starting point for symbols, I reckon one of these could work:

Given Orion generally seems to be styled around the rectangle, I guess either pause or pause.rectangle(.fill) could work, placed perhaps on the right-hand side of a tab icon? Or where the close icon would appear when hovering? Not sure what would look best.

joystmp

Is it possible to ping the server at increased interval (say 5 to 10 minutes) in a suspended tab? This should reduce unnecessary requests and still keep dynamic content updated.

Vlad

gp All of these look great we will try what looks best. Thanks!

ForumNinja404

gp @Vlad Considering Orion already has a small volume icon for muting audio, a pause button could be confused with a media playback control. Better options would include the sleep, moon, hourglass, or timer symbols.

Longely

This issue can be considered done in some way, since we have greyed out favicons now. plus the idea of a special icon has been rejected since.

Vlad

Anything else needed here?