Google makes Chrome spend less battery and resources – AIM Digital

What is the sambenito of Google Chrome, whether it is desktop or mobile? That he spends a lot of battery and device resources that starts it up. It depends a lot on the load and the number of open tabs, so … How to solve the biggest disadvantage of a big browser? Google has found a way.

Chrome developers tested new browser features for months: tabs were stopped in the background. This improvement would be on the verge of reaching Android to optimize the cost of the battery and resources. According to tests, the simple act of stopping the tabs actively collaborates in the optimization of the application.

Surely the same thing happens to you: you open the tabs of Google Chrome, or you open a new one at each link, until you see the stack of pages, you discover that there is has too much. Well: until now, these tabs were still working even if they were not used.

Google calls the new function "stop charging in the background". As they explain in XDA Developers, the Chromium Gerrit takes several months to show this feature in development. Initially, it had to be enabled by default in the browser, but this has not happened yet. However, it will reach Google Chrome on Android in the future.

Once the above feature is enabled, Google Chrome will stop tabs that are not used after five minutes to be in the background. This will not affect tabs that play music or video: these pages will remain active so that playback is not cut off.

None of the versions of Google Chrome actively removes the tabs in the background, it will come a near future. As the developers have verified, this change in the tabs will save battery life and Google Chrome will not devour as much resources as usual. It will not be anything excessive, but less is nothing.