Chrome JavaScript timer throttling: Google's tests show it saves up to 2 hours' battery life Chrome will soon throttle JavaScript timers in the background, so the browser uses significantly less ...

Google is reportedly experimenting with new features in Chrome, tacking in JavaScript throttling as a way to improve battery life. That’s based on a feature discovered in the latest test builds ...

A few months ago, we wrote about an update to Google Chrome’s beta channel that added tab throttling in order to minimize the performance impact from dormant tabs. That feature is now rolling ...

Google is tweaking its Chrome browser to make it faster and less battery-intensive – and soon it will start throttling background CPU-heavy tabs.

How does this work? “Quick intensive throttling” in Chrome stops background pages from loading JavaScript elements after 10 seconds, down from the previous limit of five minutes. Google explains: ...