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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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