Google has announced that Chrome 57 will\u00a0throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power.<\/p>\n
“Efficient power usage is an important aspect of speed.\u00a0To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimise power impact from things users can\u2019t see,” said Google<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “This includes background tabs, which consume a third of Chrome’s power usage on desktop.”<\/p>\n Google said\u00a0Chrome has limited timers in the background to run once per second.<\/p>\n “Via the new throttling policy, Chrome 57 will delay timers to limit average CPU load to 1% of a core if an application uses too much CPU in background.”<\/p>\n Tabs playing audio or maintaining real-time connections – like WebSockets or WebRTC – won\u2019t be affected.<\/p>\n Google has announced that Chrome 57 will throttle certain background tabs by limiting their timer fire rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1567,167],"class_list":["post-202910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-chrome","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202910"}],"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=202910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202912,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202910\/revisions\/202912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How long it takes for web pages to load in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"