It’s no secret that Chrome, Google’s web browser, is resource and battery hungry. Depending on the version and operating system, it could get really bad and caused a ton of memes.(opens in new tab) About Chrome slowing down your computer more than playing games.
However, Google is working on it. On Tuesday, the company announced that it has made a number of optimizations to Chrome. This allows Chrome to significantly reduce battery drain on Mac computers.
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According to the company, a 13-inch M2 Apple MacBook Pro running this latest version of Chrome should get 17 hours of browsing and 18 hours of watching YouTube. Google has also improved Chrome’s energy saving mode. This will give me another 30 minutes of browsing on battery (when the laptop’s battery drops to 20% of his, energy saving will automatically kick in, appearing as a leaf icon next to the address bar).
Short-lived iframes are less powerful for Chrome.
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Google says older Macs should perform similarly, but the company doesn’t share numbers.
These improvements are the result of some changes Google has made inside Chrome. These include tweaking “Garbage collection and memory compaction heuristics for recently created iframes”, tweaking Javascript timers for reducing CPU usage, and tweaking access patterns for “Data structures accessed frequently with the same key”. optimization, and avoidance of unnecessary access. Redrawing items rendered within the Chrome window, and the Chrome UI itself.
It’s worth noting that Google has implemented optimizations to reduce battery drain and improve Chrome’s performance on many previous occasions, including in 2017, 2020, and 2022 (when it launched the Energy Saver feature). worthy of The latest batch of changes is worth noting as it only affects Mac computers.
These changes started in Chrome versions 109 and 110, but Google told Mashable that they were only rolled out to a small percentage of users. All Chrome users should be able to see these improvements by the end of the week.
