Chrome 57 saves power and CPU cycles by throttling background tabs
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When we wrote about Chrome 56 about six weeks ago, we mentioned that Google was working on aggressively throttling background tabs in order to reduce CPU utilization and power consumption. The company's developers must feel like they've ironed out the kinks, because Chrome 57's headlinining feaure is its ability to "limit average CPU load to 1% of a core if an application uses too much CPU in background." The feature is a big enough deal it warrants its own page on the Chrome blog. The release notes for Chrome 57 don't even mention the new throttling policy, focusing instead on support for new features like CSS Grid Layout and Media Session API.
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