{"id":1122,"date":"2015-11-13T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2015-11-13T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:08:02","slug":"chrome-made-big-changes-to-save-laptop-battery-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/chrome-made-big-changes-to-save-laptop-battery-power.htm","title":{"rendered":"Chrome made big changes to save laptop battery power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is a fast, simple, and secure web browser, built for the modern web.\u00a0A\u00a0free web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. You can\u00a0also install Google Chrome on your Android or iOS device.<\/p>\n<p>Amid\u00a0much vocal complaining about Chrome&#8217;s woeful effect on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/how-to-conserve-dell-latitude-e5410-laptop-battery-power.htm\">laptop battery life<\/a> this year, Google began\u00a0cleaning up its act with a series of improvements that bolster the browser&#8217;s performance. Now\u00a0the company\u00a0rolled out a new version of Chrome with further improvements oriented around performance, and they promise to make life easier for laptop warriors who regularly find themselves with dozens of open tabs.<\/p>\n<h3>The notorious battery drain is cleaning up its act<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/dell\/xps-m1330-battery.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dell-xps-m1330-laptop-battery.jpg\" alt=\"dell-xps-m1330-laptop-battery\" width=\"657\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dell-xps-m1330-laptop-battery.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dell-xps-m1330-laptop-battery-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor starters, when you haven&#8217;t looked at a tab in a few hours \u2014 or a few months, in the case of us who are still getting around to reading &#8220;What Is Code?&#8221; \u2014 Google will purge the unused memory occupied by the page, reducing page memory use by 10 percent on average, Google says. &#8220;The effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps,&#8221; the company wrote in a blog post. &#8220;With Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chrome also now halts Flash animations that aren&#8217;t &#8220;central&#8221; to a web page, reducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/toshiba\/satellite-pro-a120-battery.htm\">Toshiba satellite pro a120 battery power<\/a>\u00a0consumption. And for those who quit Chrome accidentally or due to a crash, Chrome will now restore your tabs in the order you viewed them: stuff you were just looking at will pop right away, while the 38,000-word essay about the history of software development will be loaded once you&#8217;re already happily browsing again.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome brings your open tabs, bookmarks and recent searches from your laptop computer with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/dell\/inspiron-8600-battery.htm\">Dell inspiron 8600 battery<\/a>\u00a0to your smartphone or tablet, and vice versa. That way you have your web on all of your mobile devices. Chrome still has a long way to go before people stop complaining about its effect on notebook battery performance. But today&#8217;s update shows Google has gotten the message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is a fast, simple, and secure web browser, built for the modern web.\u00a0A\u00a0free web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. You can\u00a0also install Google Chrome on your Android or iOS device. 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