Chrome gets memory and energy saver modes

TL;DR

Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.Modern browsers eat up a lot of memory, and while that’s not a problem if you have 32GB of RAM, Chrome using multiple gigabytes of your memory can quickly slow your machine down if you’re on a machine with lower specs.The Energy Saver mode, meanwhile, limits background activity and visual effects for sites with animations and videos when your laptop’s battery level drops below 20%.According to Microsoft, sleeping a tab in Edge typically saves 83% of the memory it would normally occupy.The company rolled out its version of these features, which can automatically put tabs to sleep after five minutes of inactivity (and can bring this down all the way to 30 seconds of inactivity), a couple of years ago and then once again improved it with the release of Edge 100 earlier this year."

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