Chrome Will Throttle Battery Hogging Background Tabs To Save Power
While Google Chrome currently dominates the web browser market, it is notorious for using too much power and draining battery life quickly. Nonetheless, the Mountain View giant now says it is taking steps to address the browser’s power consumption. Starting with Chrome 57, Google is now throttling background tabs to save battery life. Chrome 57 kicks off the first phase of Google’s throttling plan, a long-term initiative meant to reduce the browser’s energy consumption and impact on CPU resources by killing tabs running in the background....