Solving problems caused by overengineering with overengineering ?
Isn't this just insane ?
If you have performance issues because you use a lots of tabs, just use a browser which is able to pause background tabs ?
Compressing and streaming pages was kind of the idea behind Opera Mini as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
So nothing really new…
Streaming your web browser and thereby exposing all information accessed and sent, including passwords, to a third-party company because you had too many unused tabs open is insane nonsense.
They're marketing it to people whose _Google Chrome_ is running too slow. That's already being exposed to Google.
It's clear that Google isn't going to optimize Chrome and people aren't going to switch to Firefox with Tree Tabs / Sidebery with background suspension.
By tradition, web browsing is the quintessential lightweight task, letting laptop vendors report "10 hours of web browsing" and the budget-conscious to say "8GB of RAM is more than enough for everyday tasks like browsing facebook"
Hearing that someone runs their web browser on a cloud server is like hearing someone has hired a personal assistant for their personal assistant.
Lots of browsers are implementing background suspension. Even if Google decided that they'll never implement this, it will be hard to convice potential customers to pay x$/month to solve a problem already solved by others browsers.
And my issue was not about wether the market exists or not. It's about an unreasonable solution to an unreasonable problem.
Market clearly exists if you are able to mass product diesel-powered personal jetpacks for $49.99. But it says nothing positive about our future. (but i'd be glad to try it at least once anyway :D )
But yes, I agree on the sustainability future. Afraid there isn't a solution other than Chrome losing market share or Google implementing the feature.