Google Chrome memory usage and battery drain reduced
Google has rolled out a number of memory and laptop battery saving features to the latest version of its Chrome web browser.
Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn’t busy with something, and use the free time to clean up old, unused memory.
“In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps,” said Google.
“With Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.”
Another feature which will decrease memory usage centres around the “continue where you left off” option.
When you relaunch Chrome after closing it with tabs open, Chrome will restore them more efficiently.
Tabs are restored from most to least-recently viewed, and Chrome will detect if your computer is running low on resources and stop restoring the rest of your tabs to save memory.
Power consumption on laptops has also been a complaint, and Google said it has made changes to the browser to address the issue.
“A new setting introduced in June will auto-pause Flash content that’s not central to a website. Our testing has shown that turning on this setting makes your battery last up to 15% longer.”
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