The atlas stops giving up on a tab you opened in the background, and Japanese stops meeting English

Open one of these maps in a background tab, leave it a few seconds and then switch to it, and the atlas had quietly settled for its plainest basemap — country outlines, no coastlines, no relief, no place names — and stayed there for the rest of the visit. A browser does not draw a tab nobody is looking at, and the map library assembles every style inside a drawing step, so in the waiting tab…