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On macOS an inactive preview guest stays visibility: visible while parked offscreen, so after the preview panel closes and the user switches to an empty thread, animated pages keep their guest renderer and the GPU busy — #14730 measured 228% CPU across four guests and a ~10 GB GPU footprint on a 16 GB Mac. Cmd-H (hiding the whole app) drops it to zero, which is how the reporter isolated it.
The macOS exception dates from #9001: Electron 43 could permanently blank a macOS webview after visibility: hidden. Linux and Windows have hidden inactive guests all along. #16961 removed the exception, verified on an Electron 44.4.5 harness that a hidden guest repaints when shown again, then reverted it before merge.
Change
Hide inactive guests everywhere.keepPaintableWhenInactive is gone; a guest only paints while someone needs it — shown in the panel, a capture or stream in flight, recording, or picture-in-picture.
Three new tests, each failing on main and passing here:
web: an inactive macOS guest (navigator.platform stubbed to MacIntel) renders visibility: hidden and data-preview-rendering="suspended".
desktop: an agent turn holds painting for its tab and releases it at turn end, in both orderings — the turn announced before the first command, and a command that arrives before the announcement.
desktop: will-attach-webview sets backgroundThrottling: false on preview partitions and still refuses non-preview partitions.
vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 37 packages, tests, react compiler).
The first command of a turn. The lease lands when the turn's first agent command is seen; a click that races that round trip can still miss. Every command after it finds the guest painted, which is still strictly better than Windows today, where no command holds the lease.
#15579 (mounted guests' memory) is not addressed: hiding stops painting, not guest lifetime.
On macOS an inactive preview guest stayed visible while parked offscreen, so
animated pages kept their guest renderer and the GPU busy after the preview
panel closed (pingdotgg#14730: 228% CPU across four guests, ~10 GB GPU footprint).
The exception dated from Electron 43 blanking hidden macOS webviews (pingdotgg#9001).
Inactive guests are hidden on every platform now. Two consumers keep their
guest painted instead: an agent's turn holds the existing painting lease so
automation drives a visible guest, and preview partitions get
backgroundThrottling: false so a hidden page's timers keep its heartbeats
alive.
Fixespingdotgg#14730
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With a preview open, minimizing or hiding the app continues guest frame production and leaves its page visibility as visible, causing sustained background CPU/GPU and battery use. Setting backgroundThrottling to false on the guest also disables throttling for the containing window; gate this setting so throttling is restored while the app is hidden.
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With a preview open, minimizing or hiding the app continues guest frame production and leaves its page visibility as `visible`, causing sustained background CPU/GPU and battery use. Setting `backgroundThrottling` to `false` on the guest also disables throttling for the containing window; gate this setting so throttling is restored while the app is hidden.
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The change hides inactive preview wrappers, disables background throttling for attached webviews, and keeps tabs painting while their agent thread is active. Tests cover inactive macOS previews, webview attachment preferences, and agent-turn painting transitions.
Inactive preview wrappers now use hidden visibility without a platform-specific paintability option. Attached webviews set backgroundThrottling to false. Tests cover the inactive macOS wrapper and preview versus default partition attachment preferences.
Painting synchronization now includes active agent turns. Agent input and active-turn commands synchronize painting for attached tabs. The test covers painting before and after turn activation, and the capturing comment now mentions agent commands.
Inactive preview guests are now hidden on all platforms and agent turns hold a painting lease. No concrete defect is established. A real-app macOS repaint check is still outstanding and is worth doing before release.
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(a) Hide inactive macOS guests and stop their renderer/GPU work. Addressed. HostedBrowserWebview.tsx no longer sets keepPaintableWhenInactive. hostedBrowserWebviewStyle.ts now…
Add a change that releases or bounds the graphics resources of inactive and closed preview guests, so they do not hold most of the available graphics memory indefinitely. Alternatively, the author and maintainers can narrow #14730 to hidden…
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All changed areas trace to the #14730 hidden-guest fix or to its stated constraints: - Removal of keepPaintableWhenInactive (web HostedBrowserWebview.tsx, hostedBrowserWebviewStyle.ts, and their test)…
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The title names the main change: inactive preview guests stop painting. It follows the conventional commit form and fits the changeset, which hides inactive guests on all platforms, removes the macOS keepPaintableWhenInactive exception, and holds the painting lease during agent turns.
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All changed areas trace to the #14730 hidden-guest fix or to its stated constraints:
Removal of keepPaintableWhenInactive (web HostedBrowserWebview.tsx, hostedBrowserWebviewStyle.ts, and their test): direct implementation of the hide-everywhere change.
DesktopBrowserHost.ts painting lease for agent turns and its tests: needed so automation keeps working on hidden guests. The issue requires automation leases to remain intact.
DesktopWindow.ts backgroundThrottling: false for preview partitions and its test: supports the hidden-guest change by keeping hidden guest timers running. It is tied to the same change. Note: JS timers still run in hidden guests, so this may keep some guest CPU active. The PR does not measure that cost. This is a reviewer concern, not a scope mismatch.
packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts comment: documentation of the new capturing meaning.
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Add a Scope and approval section. Link the triaged bug issue #14730 and the maintainer approval comment for this direction. If no maintainer approval exists, explain why this fix qualifies as a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug. For the UI change in the web guest rendering, add before/after screenshots or a short recording. Or state why they do not apply. Upload evidence to GitHub and link it.
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Objectives from #14730:
(a) Hide inactive macOS guests and stop their renderer/GPU work. Addressed. HostedBrowserWebview.tsx no longer sets keepPaintableWhenInactive. hostedBrowserWebviewStyle.ts now always sets visibility "hidden" for inactive guests. The web test covers a stubbed MacIntel inactive guest. Source evidence is the PR summary; the hidden-guest paint stop is not independently run.
(b) Agent automation keeps working. Addressed by DesktopBrowserHost.ts. syncPainting holds the painting lease for tabs in an active agent turn. Desktop tests cover both command/announcement orderings. A click racing the first command can still miss the lease, as the PR states.
(c) Reactivation restores the preview without blanking (#9001 risk). Not established. The PR reports no macOS desktop verification. The Electron 44.4.5 harness result from #16961 is cited but not reproduced here. Status of this objective is unverified.
(d) Graphics resources of inactive or closed guests should not retain most of a 16 GB machine's memory indefinitely (issue Expected behavior). Not addressed. The PR states that hiding stops painting, not guest lifetime, and that #15579 is not addressed. No code in the diff releases guest graphics resources. The issue text says the mechanism and leak rate are not established. The expectation is still stated as required behavior, so it stays unmet.
The core hide-and-suspend change is implemented. Objective (d) remains unmet.
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Add a change that releases or bounds the graphics resources of inactive and closed preview guests, so they do not hold most of the available graphics memory indefinitely. Alternatively, the author and maintainers can narrow #14730 to hidden-guest rendering and move the memory expectation to a separate linked issue (#15579 or a new issue). Either option needs a documented decision on the linked issue. Real-app macOS verification of repaint after show (objective c) is also still required.
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Put the wrapper lookup and these assertions inside vi.waitFor, or use supported expect.element assertions. Keep the lookup inside the wait so it can observe a later mount.
As per coding guidelines, “Browser tests assert through expect.element or vi.waitFor.”
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/browser/ElectronBrowserHost.browser.test.tsx around lines 175 - 177:
Update the wrapper lookup and assertions in the browser test to use vi.waitFor or supported expect.element assertions. Keep the wrapper lookup inside vi.waitFor so the test can observe a later mount, and retain the existing suspended-rendering and hidden-visibility checks.
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Add a change that releases or bounds the graphics resources of inactive and
closed preview guests, so they do not hold most of the available graphics memory
indefinitely. Alternatively, the author and maintainers can narrow #14730 to
hidden-guest rendering and move the memory expectation to a separate linked
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linked issue. Real-app macOS verification of repaint after show (objective c) is
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Problem
On macOS an inactive preview guest stays
visibility: visiblewhile parked offscreen, so after the preview panel closes and the user switches to an empty thread, animated pages keep their guest renderer and the GPU busy — #14730 measured 228% CPU across four guests and a ~10 GB GPU footprint on a 16 GB Mac. Cmd-H (hiding the whole app) drops it to zero, which is how the reporter isolated it.The macOS exception dates from #9001: Electron 43 could permanently blank a macOS webview after
visibility: hidden. Linux and Windows have hidden inactive guests all along. #16961 removed the exception, verified on an Electron 44.4.5 harness that a hidden guest repaints when shown again, then reverted it before merge.Change
keepPaintableWhenInactiveis gone; a guest only paints while someone needs it — shown in the panel, a capture or stream in flight, recording, or picture-in-picture.painting→capturing→ surface activity) for the tabs a turn is driving, so automation works against a visible guest instead of a hidden page that drops input. Recording, picture-in-picture and captures stay on the path they already used. This is what the triage on [Bug]: Inactive macOS previews still render with panel closed: 228% GPU/guest CPU and ~10 GB graphics footprint #14730 asked for ("automation should stay on the existing renderingActive path"), and it keeps macOS background automation where it is today instead of inheriting [Bug]: Agent browser stalls / drops connection on Windows when its panel is off-screen (switching threads) #17483's Windows failure mode.backgroundThrottling: false, so a suspended page's heartbeats keep running — the remedy [Bug]: Agent browser stalls / drops connection on Windows when its panel is off-screen (switching threads) #17483's reporter prescribed. Painting still stops with visibility, so [Bug]: Inactive macOS previews still render with panel closed: 228% GPU/guest CPU and ~10 GB graphics footprint #14730's cost is gone; this only stops background sockets from dying while the guest is hidden.Testing
Three new tests, each failing on
mainand passing here:navigator.platformstubbed toMacIntel) rendersvisibility: hiddenanddata-preview-rendering="suspended".paintingfor its tab and releases it at turn end, in both orderings — the turn announced before the first command, and a command that arrives before the announcement.will-attach-webviewsetsbackgroundThrottling: falseon preview partitions and still refuses non-preview partitions.vp run check:changedpasses (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 37 packages, tests, react compiler).What I could not verify
#15579 (mounted guests' memory) is not addressed: hiding stops painting, not guest lifetime.
Refs #9661
Fixes #14730
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