All Tags AWS ai algorithm-design architecture browser cloud cloud-efficiency cloud-principles cost-reduction data-centric data-compression data-processing deployment design documentation edge-computing email-sharing energy-efficiency energy-footprint enterprise-optimization green-ai hardware libraries llm locality machine-learning maintainability management measured microservices migration mobile model-optimization model-training multi-objective network-traffic parameter-tuning performance queries rebuilding scaling services storage-optimization strategies tabs template testing workloads

Tactic: Implement Tab-Closure Notification

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic

Type: Software Practice

Category: resource-monitoring

Tags: browser energy-efficiency network-traffic tabs

Title

Implement Tab-Closure Notification

Description

Notify users when many browser tabs are open to encourage closing inactive ones. This reduces unnecessary background activity and network traffic, and can keep the browser responsive.

Participant

Browser/product teams; frontend engineers

Related software artifact

Web browser (tab management/notification UI)

Context

Knowledge work where users accumulate many open tabs

Software feature

Tab count monitoring and user notifications (optional tab suspension)

Tactic intent

Reduce unncessary network traffic and associated energy use

Target quality attribute

Energy efficiency

Other related quality attributes

Performance (responsiveness), Usability

Measured impact

With 10 tabs open, network traffic was 15.5× higher than with 1 tab

Source

M.N. Rahman, M. Madon, P. Lago (2024) Sufficient Use of the Cloud for Work: Practitioners’ Perception and Potential for Energy Saving (ICT4S 2024) (DOI: 10.1109/ICT4S64576.2024.00038)