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March 15, 2017 10:20 am GMT
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New version of Chrome is much easier on your laptop's battery
If there's one complaint about Chrome that keeps popping up lately, it's that Google's web browser — once a lightweight alternative to the much slower Internet Explorer and Firefox — is a resources hog.
Now, Google has partly addressed that issue by throttling background tabs so that they don't use a lot of CPU time, thus saving power.
According to a post on Google's Chromium blog, the change, which went live with Chrome version 57, makes background tabs 25% less busy. This, in turn, should have a considerable impact on a laptop's battery life, though Google doesn't state exactly how big. Read more...
More about Energy, Battery Life, Saving Battery, Tabs, and Google ChromeOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/mashable/tech/~3/q5Tse6tHjqg/
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