From be7c4b8fe744e5e3a38f39461db85073d524be40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brooklyn Nicholson <brooklyn.bb.nicholson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:56:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] perf(desktop): let the hidden link-title window throttle

It loads arbitrary user-linked pages offscreen; unthrottled, a heavy page
burns full CPU for the window's whole lifetime. Title resolution rides
load events and main-process timers, which throttling doesn't touch.
---
 apps/desktop/electron/link-title-window.ts | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/desktop/electron/link-title-window.ts b/apps/desktop/electron/link-title-window.ts
index 0920976a528..226ac3ce60e 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/electron/link-title-window.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/electron/link-title-window.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ export function linkTitleWindowOptions(partitionSession) {
     width: 1280,
     height: 800,
     webPreferences: {
-      backgroundThrottling: false,
+      // Deliberately throttled: this hidden window loads arbitrary user-linked
+      // pages, and an unthrottled heavy page burns full CPU for the window's
+      // whole lifetime. Title resolution rides load events
+      // (page-title-updated / did-finish-load) plus main-process timers, none
+      // of which the renderer clamp touches — hidden-page throttling only
+      // slows the page's own timer-driven JS, and the grace window already
+      // absorbs that.
       contextIsolation: true,
       javascript: true,
       nodeIntegration: false,