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.
