Chrome 57 Throttles Background Tabs To Save Power

[Lucian Armasu]

The recently released Chrome 57 has started throttling individual background tabs to 1% of a CPU core's performance to significantly cut the overall power consumption of the browser and improve a notebook's battery life.

Chrome 57 Throttles Background Tabs To Save Power : Read more

 

[Jeff Fx]

Sweet. This won't matter much on my desktop, but should be a big improvement on my crappy Win 10 tablet.

 

[anbello262]

Is this optional? Can this setting be disabled?

 

[drajitsh]

I would like to disable this, specially on my phone, because in slow connections I often read one tab while loading others in the background.

 

[Paul Kan]

Hope the background tab release the memory as well.

 

[RomeoReject]

Tabs that have audio or video playing won't be affected? No. Affect them. Those god damned ads that fire up on mystery tabs when browsing are THE WORST. Anything that buggers them up is a good thing.

 

[anbello262]

Tabs that have audio or video playing won't be affected? No. Affect them. Those god damned ads that fire up on mystery tabs when browsing are THE WORST. Anything that buggers them up is a good thing.

But what about playing youtube for music on background tabs?

(I believe that auto playing video/sound ads are a different beast that should be killed to extinction altogether)

 

[RomeoReject]

Tabs that have audio or video playing won't be affected? No. Affect them. Those god damned ads that fire up on mystery tabs when browsing are THE WORST. Anything that buggers them up is a good thing.

But what about playing youtube for music on background tabs?

(I believe that auto playing video/sound ads are a different beast that should be killed to extinction altogether)

Fair enough, forgot about those.

You're right about the audio/video ads though. If your ad pisses me off, I can promise you I will actively avoid purchasing it, companies. This is a very simple concept.