Most stuff is not inviting you to open it in a new tab. While this might be to ameliorate the ws limits, it's annoying as hell. Certainly WSs should not be opened by every tab but by one shared webworker for all tabs.
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Service Workers is the right term in 2022 apparently.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61865890/run-websocket-in-web-worker-or-service-worker-javascript comments on the issue of multiple tabs with same WSs.
thanks! bookmarked. will be attempting to optimize the db worker for astral in next round of updates