Is it possible to disable background throttling on tabs?

[hiagodotme]

My use of tabs is to keep more than one centralized panel connected to sockets.

Each tab will connect to a socket and there will still be intervals running non-stop every 1s. In my current electron application I basically needed to do this:

const win = new BrowserWindow({
     // ...
     webPreferences: {
       // ...
       backgroundThrottling: false
       // ...
     },
     // ...
});

This solves my problem, but when running my application within the tab when it is not active, backgroundThrottling limits the tab, impacting my application.

My question is, how do I disable backgroundThrottling within a tab/webview?

I tried the following, but without success:

const tab = tabGroup.addTab({
           title: data.title,
           src: data.url,
           iconURL: data.iconURL || undefined,
           active: true,
           webviewAttributes: {
             preload: rootDir + '/preload-withsdk.js',
             backgroundThrottling: false, // <----------
           }
});

[brrd]

I think you need to get the tab webContents and use contents.setBackgroundThrottling(false) as described here: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/web-contents#contentssetbackgroundthrottlingallowed

The webContents you need is the one related to the webview (which you can access in tab.webview), not the window's one. Electron used to provide a method webview.getWebContents() but it's now deprecated, so you will have to write your own function to get it: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/breaking-changes#deprecated-webviewgetwebcontents