Google has announced that Chrome 57 will\u00a0throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power.<\/p>\n
\u201cEfficient power usage is an important aspect of speed.\u00a0To prolong battery life, Chrome should minimise power impact from things users can\u2019t see,\u201d said Google<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis includes background tabs, which consume a third of Chrome\u2019s power usage on desktop.\u201d<\/p>\n Google said\u00a0Chrome has limited timers in the background to run once per second.<\/p>\n \u201cVia the new throttling policy, Chrome 57 will delay timers to limit average CPU load to 1% of a core if an application uses too much CPU in background.\u201d<\/p>\n Tabs playing audio or maintaining real-time connections \u2013 like WebSockets or WebRTC \u2013 won\u2019t be affected.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/a> <\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Google has announced that Chrome 57 will throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":99144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24143,24141],"class_list":["post-116115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-24143","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116117,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116115\/revisions\/116117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How long it takes for web pages to load in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"