'use strict'
// Hidden BrowserWindow used by tier-2 link-title resolution: when curl can't
// read a page
(bot walls, JS-rendered pages), we briefly load the URL
// in an offscreen window and read its title. That window loads arbitrary
// user-linked pages — including YouTube/`watch` URLs that autoplay — so it must
// never be allowed to emit sound.
function linkTitleWindowOptions(partitionSession) {
return {
show: false,
width: 1280,
height: 800,
webPreferences: {
backgroundThrottling: false,
contextIsolation: true,
javascript: true,
nodeIntegration: false,
sandbox: true,
session: partitionSession,
webSecurity: true
}
}
}
// Create the offscreen title-fetch window and immediately mute it. Without the
// mute, autoplaying media on the loaded page (e.g. a YouTube link) leaks ~2s of
// audio every time a session containing such links is re-rendered. See #49505.
function createLinkTitleWindow(BrowserWindow, partitionSession) {
const window = new BrowserWindow(linkTitleWindowOptions(partitionSession))
try {
window.webContents.setAudioMuted(true)
} catch {
// webContents may be unavailable in degraded/headless environments; muting
// is best-effort and the window is destroyed within a few seconds anyway.
}
return window
}
module.exports = { createLinkTitleWindow, linkTitleWindowOptions }