Google Chrome on the desktop is finally gaining two new features. While it becomes a lot more efficient with the system’s RAM as well as battery. The features are Memory Saver and Energy Saver. Also, both of these features are intended to design for making your web browsing experience a lot smoother.
Memory Saver
Similar to the sleeping tabs that have been placed in Microsoft Edge, Memory Saver in Chrome can also respond to free up the computer’s memory from inactive tabs for a faster and smoother browsing experience. This is basically for a situation where you have a lot of media-heavy tabs open.
Memory Saver will efficiently freeze unused tabs and put them in an inactive state. Therefore, reload them when needed. It makes you know when the memory saver is on since it shows the notification for the same in the address bar while the option to turn it off manually. While Google will also give you a visual indicator of how much KB memory is being saved.
Energy Saver
Energy Saver is came into a role when your laptop goes below 20%, then Chrome will tweak webpages to save precious battery life. This is achieved by limiting background activity, as well as optimizing certain visual effects for a website including animation and video.
Subsequently, there will be a visual indicator in the Chrome menu bar for Energy Saver at the time it is turned on. This is another feature that has been featured in Microsoft Edge for little a while. And now Google is also fetching the same intended to optimize Chrome to be less power-hungry.
Also, Google says that users have full control of both of these new options. While you’ll find it under the three-dot menu in Chrome. And if need then you can even exempt websites from memory saving. Therefore, to avail of these features, update Chrome today by tapping on the three-dot menu. Next choosing Google Chrome to download the latest release, prompted to restart on the finish.
