[Resource Consumption] minimized iframes consume resources and are unbounded
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Minimized iframe surfaces retain their live documents without a count limit so minimizing another browser never discards unsaved page state or turns reattachment into a reload.
Hidden iframes can still consume memory and run JavaScript, timers, sockets, and media. Retaining arbitrarily many minimized iframes therefore allows resource consumption to grow without a Dormouse-imposed bound.
Priority: low. This is an accepted tradeoff for preserving content state. A future improvement could warn users when retained iframe resource use is high. Do not silently evict or reload minimized documents to enforce a cap.
The current eight-surface parking cap is being removed as part of the minimize/reattach lifecycle fix. This issue tracks the resource-consumption follow-up, not reintroducing that cap.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the minimized iframe lifecycle and how retained documents consume resources. The issue does not name files, tests, thresholds, or a concrete implementation; clarify the warning behavior and its completion criteria before starting work.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100