Microsoft has the first major impact on Chrome

Thanks to the open-source nature of Chromium, Microsoft has had its first major and positive impact on Chrome, Google's web browser. With a feature request from Microsoft, Google will make a change to Chromium, the open source project that allows Google to create Chrome, which dramatically improves battery life.

"Today, multimedia content is cached on disk during acquisition and playback," says Shawn Pickett of Microsoft, in his suggestion to change Chromium. "Keeping the disk active during this process increases energy consumption in general, and [it] This can also prevent the use of certain low power modes in the operating system. Because media consumption is an intensive use scenario, this additional use of energy has a negative impact on battery life. This change will prevent caching of certain media on the disk to improve the battery life of the devices for users. "

And Microsoft knows the life of the battery. In addition to being the makers of the most popular desktop operating system on which Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers are run, it has also spent several years optimizing the life of the battery of his previous versions of Microsoft Edge. And then, the results would be known: the classic Edge consistently outperformed the battery life in Chrome and other browsers.

And Google on board. For now, the change is tested as an experimental feature in Chrome Canary (the nightly versions of Chrome 78), which must be enabled by default: Just open chrome: // flags and look for "Disable caching of media content." continuously on the disc. (It works in Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS and Android.)

And if everything goes as planned, it will be implemented and enabled by default in the browser.

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