{"id":364050,"date":"2020-08-17T08:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=364050"},"modified":"2020-08-17T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:36:24","slug":"new-battery-saving-feature-for-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/364050-new-battery-saving-feature-for-google-chrome.html","title":{"rendered":"New battery-saving feature for Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is testing a new feature that will let websites recommend ways Chrome can reduce battery usage when accessing them, The Windows Club<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

This Battery-Savings Meta Tag feature is particularly relevant for video streaming and video conferencing websites and will allow users to reduce their CPU usage.<\/p>\n

An explainer on GitHub detailed that the feature would align with the battery saving features on modern operating systems.<\/p>\n

“Most modern OSes also have battery saving features that kick in either when the battery is low or the user wishes to save battery,” said<\/strong><\/a> Github user Chrishtr.<\/p>\n

“Ideally web sites should be able to respect these settings. Sites may wish to advise the UA on which strategies work best for the site in these situations.”<\/p>\n

An example of how sites could implement battery-saving measures is by informing Chrome that it can run non-essential javascript tasks at a slower speed than would usually be the case.<\/p>\n

“Examples of such tasks might including third-party ads setup or incremental pre-rendering setup of offscreen content,” said Christhtr.<\/p>\n

The Battery-Savings Meta Tag feature is currently available for testing through Origin Trial.<\/p>\n

Google will reportedly experiment with this feature on Chrome V86 and v87.<\/p>\n

Chrome battery-saving measures<\/h3>\n

This is not the first recent attempt by Google to reduce battery consumption on laptops and mobile devices.<\/p>\n

The Windows Club recently reported<\/strong><\/a> that Google has recently experimented with a prototype of Chrome that limits JavaScript timer wake-ups to one per minute.<\/p>\n

One test, where Google opened 36 random tabs in the background of Chrome, found that throttling Javascript timers extended the battery life by 28% \u2013 or almost two hours.<\/p>\n

A second test substituted the blank foreground tab used in the first test, with a YouTube video in fullscreen mode.<\/p>\n

The gains were less significant in this instance, but battery life was still increased by 13% \u2013 or around 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Google is testing a new battery-saving feature that will let websites recommend to Chrome to save the user’s battery when accessing them, The Windows Club reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":358883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4712,1567,167,1137],"class_list":["post-364050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-battery-life","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364050"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364052,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364050\/revisions\/364052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}