product · inferred from evidence
Chromium
The open-source browser project that underpins Google Chrome and other browsers.
- PostHog app consuming excessive browser memory tabs in background
Fixed by the PostHog team: they reorganized how the app and the posthog-js SDK deal with localStorage, massively reducing both the frequency and the size of each localStorage write, which avoids triggering the underlying Chromium bug.
- Ably Realtime whitescreens Electron renderer ~30s after connect
The Ably team root-caused this to a Chromium `setTimeout` bug that triggers when ably-js code is evaluated from a custom vm context in an Electron renderer process. Fixes that worked: run ably-js from the main process instead of the rendere