Google has started rolling out its latest Chrome update, which brings the new energy and memory-saving mode across Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, and Linux. This feature is quite identical to the Microsoft Edge performance mode, which Google started testing first with Chrome 108 back in December and now has been enabled.
This will help users free up some memory and also reduce power consumption. This helps to run tabs more smoothly by freezing inactive tabs. As expected, Google Chrome is expected to see around a 30% boost in efficiency with their browser.
Google has always been criticised as resource-hungry, and now with the new memory-saving feature, which will optimise resource utilisation by giving more priority to active tabs compared to other inactive tabs, inactive tabs will be snoozed and will be relegated to the background, but those tabs will remain visible in the tab ribbons.
This is the same thing that was on notebooks and Chromebooks. You can also configure the energy saver to kick off when the battery percentage goes below 20%, and it can achieve such savings by disabling smooth scrolling, and website animations, and reducing the video frame rate.
Additionally, Chrome will now enable the battery saver when you unplug your laptop from the charger to maximise efficiency. You can check Chrome Memory Saver and Energy Saver from the Performance tab in Chrome Settings. Upon enabling it, it will use 10GB less memory on Windows PCs, Macs, and Chromebooks and will give granular control over which sites you want to whitelist, along with two new performance settings.