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Re:Reducing power consumption for background tabs by vdnkh on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:58PM (#13878254)
I wish this could be (maybe it already can be?) disabled for environments where I don't care about battery life/power consumption. This change probably saves me a fraction of a cent per month at the cost of a worse web experience (I'm a bit of a tab hoarder).
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Re:Reducing power consumption for background tabs by gnicholas on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:39PM (#13878601)
Good point, although I find that performance is always an issue—even when I'm plugged in. I'm also a tab hoarder (though more in Firefox, thanks to Tree Style Tabs), and I find that my Mac's sluggishness is always caused by having too many tabs open.

Sadly, my workaround has been to quit and re-launch browsers, which presumably has a similar effect to this update. Looking forward to seeing if the new version keeps things snappier...

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Re:Reducing power consumption for background tabs by erikdesjardins on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:13PM (#13880347)
Seems that it can be turned off at:

  chrome://flags/#expensive-background-timer-throttling
...though they may eventually remove the flag.
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Re:Reducing power consumption for background tabs by joshstrange on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:42AM (#13885934)
Good for debugging an issue for sure but if you do any web-dev I'd shy away from disabling it for fear you might miss something that breaks on one of your sites because of it.
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