Google Chrome Testing a New Feature to Improve Device Battery Life

According to a recent report, Google has recently expressed the possibility that the battery life of devices can be increased up to 2 hours. The company is currently working on minimizing the wake-up timer of JavaScript on devices for up to one minute as it may help devices consume less battery when tabs are running in the background. The company said that such a great feature may bring about improvement in battery life and is likely to increase battery life by up to 28%. It has been found that the tabs running in the background are the sole reason for poor battery life. The company is currently looking forward to growing the chances of improving battery life to a high extent.

Can Google improve your device’s battery life?

Google has expressed its possibility and is currently engaged in conducting various tests on a large number of devices. The latest update will work on preventing  JavaScript from performing all irrelevant tasks such as analysis of ad interaction and log reporting. Recently, Google conducted a test where they had 36 tabs running in the background, with a foreground tab open, and found that battery life went up by 28% during the test.

Google Chrome Testing a New Feature to Improve Device Battery Life


After conducting the previous test where battery life went up by 28%. It was a turn to conduct another test where the company had these background tabs play a video from YouTube, the victory in the test was accomplished by little margins. During the test conducted above, battery life went up by 13% as compared to not using the throttling process.

Were these tests successful?

The tests conducted by Google were successful. The company conducted two tests during which it was found that the tabs running in the background consume much battery and the throttling system has been successful in reducing the level of battery consumption by these tabs. The company showed during the first phase of the test that the battery life saw a 28% increase. The second phase of the test too remained successful. The second phase of the test where the company had these background tabs play a video from YouTube, managed to achieve good results. During the second phase of the test, the battery life went up by 13% which was in the region of 36 minutes. The company has tested the feature but there are a large number of crucial phases the feature may have to go through.

JavaScript Timer

For a long time, Google has been making a great contribution towards extending features of apps and software. Google is not just a term that defines the Internet but a company that has till now brought about significant changes in software development. Google has put the steps further and is going to post an update with the DevTools console. The test is being done on Chrome 86. There are many crucial phases the company may have to go through to roll out the feature to bring about improvement in the device’s battery life. There are a great number of tests that may not come up to expectations. The company is currently working with its eyes on the throttling system that may help your device’s battery life improve a lot.

Know about the throttling system

It’s very important to know about the term ‘throttling system’ that is gaining ground these days. Throttling system is the term that means ‘preventing tabs from running in the background. It is most likely that you usually surf the internet with the help of a browser and sometimes enter another tab, swiping one aside. Reality is, all the tabs running in the background on your browser may have a negative effect on both your device’s battery performance and battery life. To prevent this from happening, Google is making constant efforts so that less battery is consumed by all the tabs running in the background on the browser. The company has also expressed the possibility of a new feature being available very soon. The throttling process is being taken cognizance of by Google.

The company has been providing suggestions on the same for a long time. The company conducted two phases of the new feature that measured up to expectations. In simple browsers, when you have a lot of tabs running in the background, it may have a negative effect on the performance of your browser and on your device’s battery life. Google recently came out with good news that the company will be coming with the latest Chrome browser which won’t have any effect of those tabs running in the background.

Finally, what does Google expect from these tests?

Google has expressed concern about all the hungry tabs running in the background on the browser. It has been assumed that these tabs consume much battery and cause harm to the device’s battery life. With this in mind, Google wants to reduce battery consumption by suppressing the background operation of tabs in Google Chrome, moreover, Google has expressed its possibility of rolling out the latest feature, which may extend your device’s battery life up to 2 hours, in the soonest possible time.

SOURCE:- Google Chrome Testing a New Feature to Improve Device Battery Life

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