Microsoft begins testing a new feature to solve the problem of battery depletion on a Chrome Edge basis

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There is a little more than a week we announced that Microsoft had finally created a potential solution to the problem of battery depletion of chrome-based browsers. According to Microsoft, the real culprit behind the depletion of the battery was the caching of media. Following their discovery, Microsoft submitted a modification that was then approved by the Chromium team and Google incorporated an indicator in the Canary version of Chrome to limit disk activity when reading from supports.

Following the traces of Google, Microsoft implemented an indicator similar to the Canary Island version of Microsoft Edge. If you are using the Canary version of Microsoft Edge, make sure you have v78.0.256.0 or later installed, go to the edge: // flag and enable it to enable the checkbox "Disable caching streaming media content on the disk. "

This should ideally reduce disk usage as media caching will be disabled, which should improve the battery life of the laptop. One thing to note is that disabling the feature will limit the amount of cached media on the disk, which can be a problem for users with slow Internet connections. The feature is currently in the testing phase and Microsoft expects it to reduce disk usage, but it may not work as expected at the moment.

Not only that, but Microsoft is also considering adding a feature that would allow browsers to cache on RAM rather than on the hard drive / SSD. This should further reduce disk usage, but at the expense of RAM. Users with less RAM may have problems because Chromium-based browsers may require more RAM to cache content. Microsoft is currently working on the feature only for audio files and has already submitted a commit for the same thing.

Via Techdows