{"id":137354,"date":"2015-09-04T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T06:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=137354"},"modified":"2015-09-04T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T06:38:08","slug":"google-chrome-memory-usage-and-battery-drain-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/137354-google-chrome-memory-usage-and-battery-drain-reduced.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome memory usage and battery drain reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has rolled out a number of memory and laptop battery saving features to the latest version of its Chrome web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn\u2019t busy with something, and use the free time to clean up old, unused memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnCxYypAFbk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another feature which will decrease memory usage centres around the \u201ccontinue where you left off\u201d option.<\/p>\n<p>When you relaunch Chrome after closing it with tabs open, Chrome will restore\u00a0them more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Power consumption on laptops has also been a complaint, and Google said it has made changes to the browser to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new setting introduced in June will auto-pause Flash content that\u2019s not central to a website. Our testing has shown that turning on this setting makes your battery last up to 15% longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/136360-the-most-hyped-technologies-in-the-world.html\"><strong>The most hyped technologies in the world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136866-chrome-will-stop-flash-auto-playing-certain-content.html\"><strong>Chrome will stop Flash auto-playing certain content<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136860-linux-4-2-released.html\"><strong>Linux 4.2 released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136578-secret-test-in-google-search-used-to-recruit-programmers.html\"><strong>Secret test in Google search used to recruit programmers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136148-most-popular-programming-languages-on-github-2008-to-2015.html\"><strong>Most popular programming languages on Github: 2008 to 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has tackled some of the issues users have been complaining about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,167,1137],"class_list":["post-137354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137364,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137354\/revisions\/137364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}