Google Chrome Will Be Easier On Macbook Battery
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Oct 26, 2024
Oct 26, 2024
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Macbook users who prefer Google Chrome over the default Safari browser have always complained about the faster draining battery. Safari on the other hand, always played nicely with the resources and extended the overall battery life. Google's finally rolled up sleeves to make Chrome lighter on Macbooks so that it hogs lesser amount of resources; thereby extending the life. Google's Peter Kasting wrote on #-Link-Snipped-# about the improvements Chrome engineering team is adding to addressing this issue.
Outlining the improvements made on the trunk, Kasting writes that the Chrome renderers for the background tabs had same priority as that of the foreground (active) tabs. Now, the foreground tabs will have higher priority than the background ones. The performance tests have shown about 50% improvement with this shift.
The engineering team has also improved upon the wake times and CPU use resulting into 66% improvement; bringing Chrome at par with Safari. All of these changes will appear in Chromium before public release goes live for Chrome on OSX. The post did not talk about the ETA but we'd expect at least a few weeks before this arrives on your Macbooks.
We'd love to ask current Safari users whether they would love to switch to Chrome once it's address all the memory and CPU usage related issues? Or are you too addicted to Safari on OSX?
Outlining the improvements made on the trunk, Kasting writes that the Chrome renderers for the background tabs had same priority as that of the foreground (active) tabs. Now, the foreground tabs will have higher priority than the background ones. The performance tests have shown about 50% improvement with this shift.
The engineering team has also improved upon the wake times and CPU use resulting into 66% improvement; bringing Chrome at par with Safari. All of these changes will appear in Chromium before public release goes live for Chrome on OSX. The post did not talk about the ETA but we'd expect at least a few weeks before this arrives on your Macbooks.
We'd love to ask current Safari users whether they would love to switch to Chrome once it's address all the memory and CPU usage related issues? Or are you too addicted to Safari on OSX?
