I've noticed that when I have tabs open on my 4.4.4 forum and they've been sitting open a while, they are prepended with a pause character at some point.  Why is this necessary?  I could see it happening on the All Activity page since that one is monitoring for new content, but the rest of the site?  I see it on this site as well. 

Any insight would be appreciated.  And it would be nice if I could disable this unless it's serving some useful purpose. 

Thank you, 

 ..Al

When you have automatic polling turned on and the tab has been inactive for a while it shows the paused icon.

Yes, the icon indicates that the page is no longer polling for new notifications.

Thank you.

On 6/19/2019 at 2:31 PM, day_ said:

When you have automatic polling turned on and the tab has been inactive for a while it shows the paused icon.

I have how to disable?

Some users are complaining that notifications don't work.

11 minutes ago, DSystem said:

Some users are complaining that notifications don't work.

I would suggest submitting a ticket if the notifications are encountering an error or are not working.

The automatic polling just means that the software will look for new notifications every so often if the user is still on the same page. This can be disabled though in ACP -> System -> Advanced Configuration -> disable "Enable Automatic Polling?" 

Isn't the pause icon showing a Chrome feature (when a tab that has a site that auto-updates hasn't been accessed in a set period of time)?

No, what is being discussed is something we have implemented ourselves.

Oh, I see - now that I think about it, the only places I see the pause icon in the tab are on my site and this one!