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March 14, 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu

 

                                            



 

Starting with Chrome 57, released last week, Google has put a muzzle on the amount of resources background tabs can use.

According to Google engineers, Chrome 57 will temporarily delay a background tab's JavaScript timers if that tab is using more than 1% of a CPU core. Further, all background timers are suspended automatically after five minutes on mobile devices.

The delay/suspension will halt resource consumption and cut down on battery usage, something that laptop, tablet, and smartphone owners can all relate.

 

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That will be nice for once! Browsers these days are Memory and CPU hogs.
kuddo's for chrome for giving us usabillity 🙂 the majority of browsers these days are resource hungry 😞 so this is certainly going to be a freh breeze of air 🙂

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