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I use Suspend Tab.

Earlier this year I realized a major offender was Google search and search results pages which would spin up a core more than once a minute.

This explained to me at least why it was still hogging cpu even with ad blocker.

Not yet, but they're working on it:

and a preliminary version is in Chrome 56:

Use requestAnimationFrame instead of setTimeout to get a throttled heartbeat.