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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by NTripleOne on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:15PM (#13473292)
>3.

I swear to god if I see anything mentioning a battery on a desktop machine with no battery...

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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by jrockway on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:18PM (#13473328)
There's no way to know whether or not it has a battery. Maybe it's on a UPS, for example.

All I know is that my desktop runs at about 70W idle vs. 450W fully-loaded. Unnecessary use of the CPU wastes money regardless of whether or not you're using that money to charge a battery.

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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by jlgaddis on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:43PM (#13477691)
Sites can get your battery level from the browser.

IIRC, most of the browsers are going to do away with this functionality soon, however.

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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs by cbhl on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:45PM (#13473591)
Even on a desktop machine, you don't want tabs spinning in the background (using electricity) if you don't need the work being done. That's bad for your wallet and bad for the environment.
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