Chrome: energy and memory savers are here, here’s how to activate them

Thing promised, thing due: Google has just rolled out new features announced last year for its Web browser.

While Chrome’s Picture-in-Picture feature should soon expand its possibilities, the American giant continues to refine its famous browser.

Chrome is getting two long-awaited new features

Last December, the Mountain View firm announced an energy and memory saving mode for Google Chrome. A welcome idea, allowing Chrome users to reduce their energy consumption, as well as the use of system memory.

In fact, the energy saver allows Google Chrome to automatically switch to economy mode when your computer’s battery drops below 20%. The browser will then limit the activity in the background and the various visual effects displayed on the sites, this being obviously in order to preserve the state of your battery. The second tool, on the other hand, is to reduce the memory used by unvisited tabs to free up more resources for your other pages. Once activated, it would use up to 30% less memory, according to Google’s claims.

Screen and memory savers begin rolling out

As just reported to us by the site 9to5Google, and as we have also been able to verify, the two new features of Chrome have officially started their deployment. To access it, simply go to the browser settings, then access the “Performance” menu from the left side pane.

We can notice from our screenshot above that the settings offer the option to customize performance options. Regarding the memory saver, you can, if you wish, add a list of sites for which the feature will always remain active. The screen saver can also be activated whenever your laptop is unplugged from the mains. Finally, note that these new options have just started to appear (so don’t panic if you don’t see anything on your side for the moment) and that they are available on Windows, Mac and Chromebook.

Source : 9to5Google