Chrome 57 launched on desktop last week bringing with it significant power usage improvements by throttling the CPU usage of background tabs which resulted in a 25% fewer busy background tabs.
After the release of Google Chrome 57 for desktop last week a new post on the Chromium blog indicates that it came with big improvements to battery life. In the release, Chrome throttles individual background tabs by limiting the “timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power” resulting in 25% fewer busy background tabs.
