Google Chrome can become less power-hungry, especially if you keep many tabs open in the background. A newly discovered feature in the Dev build will improve battery life on mobile devices and possibly even boost performance on older, low-performance PCs.
Google Chrome is certainly the most popular web browser in the world, but it also has a reputation of a system resource hoarder. That may soon change, as the company is testing a new feature that will improve battery life for Chrome users across all platforms who like to keep multiple tabs open.
Currently, Chrome only allows web pages to execute JavaScript code once in a minute, if you haven’t interacted with them for more than five minutes, essentially putting inactive tabs to sleep.
About Chromebooks has spotted a new feature called “Quick intensive timer throttling of loaded background pages” in Chrome OS 105 (Dev channel). This feature changes the default five-minute grace period to 10 seconds, which purportedly increases CPU runtime by about 10%.
This improvement doesn’t mean you’ll get a 10% increase in battery life, since the processor only makes up for a fraction of the system’s total power consumption. However, it can make a noticeable difference depending on how many tabs you keep open and how inefficiently coded the websites you visit are.
The feature should be available in a few months for Chrome users on all platforms, including Windows, Chrome OS, Linux, MacOS, and Android. Other Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge and Opera, may also decide to implement this change, especially given that Edge already has an efficiency mode that works in a similar way.
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