Example
I was half-way through reading a long article on Medium when I remembered I wanted to write this feature request. So I opened a new window, and went to this forum to write the above feature request.
After I finished, I went back to the Window with the article. Just as I focused the window, it kind of reloaded and set me at the top of the article. Now I have to find my place again to continue reading.
I've had the same thing happen, except where I'm filling in a form and I need to check some information from another site. So I open a new window to get the other information, and when I get back the page is refreshed and the form has lost what I was writing.
Workarounds:
- I could turn off Low Power Mode
- I could pin the tab with the Form in before I do the research
I don't want to do these workarounds because
- An advantage of Orion for me is to be able to use lots of tabs in Low Power Mode.
- I don't want to Pin something that is as transient as filling in a form often is. In many cases it's some kind of transactional process, and I have no need for the site, or the tab it's on, once I have completed the form.
If the visible tab of a window does not get supended in Low Power Mode, that feels natural to me (it's visible and active, so makes sense it doesn't get suspended.
A refinement might be that if a window is minimized then the visible tab of the window can be suspended. But I don't think the extra complexity of that is worth having -- there's the risk that the mental model of what's going on becomes more complicated.