[GUACAMOLE-1687] Connections in background tabs may disconnect if throttled by Chrome/Safari

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2
• Component/s: guacamole-common-js
• Assignee: Mike Jumper
• Reporter: Mike Jumper
• Created: 26/Sep/22 21:13
• Updated: 04/May/23 23:57
• Resolved: 04/May/23 23:57

Description

Chrome, the various Chromium variants, and Safari will heavily throttle JavaScript timers within background tabs and windows. This prevents the tunnel from issuing its keep-alive ping and may result in a disconnect. See:

• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/timer-throttling-in-chrome-88/
• https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR/issues/4536

It's possible that there is a way to work around this and continue sending keep-alives in the background, such as by simply changing the originating event of those timers:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1186569#c3