Google’s latest upgrade to the Chrome browser began what will be a series of moves over the next several years to reduce the browser’s power consumption by limiting activity in background tabs.
“Starting in version 57, Chrome will throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power,” Alexander Timin, a software engineer on the Chrome team, said in a Tuesday post to a company blog.
Chrome 57 debuted on Thursday, March 9. Some users, however, may not have yet received the upgrade.
Throttling background tabs isn’t new: All browsers do it to some extent, primarily by instructing them to check for a refresh to the pertinent page or app just once each second rather than more-or-less continuously.
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