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There were a pile of power management fixes coming in Chrome 45 - see https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/GpL63A1K2TF https://plus.google.com/+PeterKast
by bazzargh 11y ago
There were a pile of power management fixes coming in Chrome 45 - see https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/GpL63A1K2TF https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/GpL63A1K2TF
...currently out there in the beta update stream, shouldn't be far off now.
- cma 11y agoSeems likely to fall behind again when El Capitan is released and Safari begins using Metal.
- Someone1234 11y agoThat's odd, the renderers fix seems to be Mac only. Is it already fixed on other platforms or is that simply not a priority? Chrome seems to have a higher than IE battery drain on Windows also.
- barrkel 11y agoOn Linux, I regularly observe Chrome continuously consuming one whole core. Typically anything with a nice CSS animation seems to be implemented game-loop style: while (true) { render(update(delta)); }. Disabling things like spinner animations on a web page causes CPU load to plummet.
- monksy 11y agoAt least a single core and most of your memory.