Chrome will soon throttle JavaScript timers in the background, so the browser uses significantly less power.

Google is reportedly experimenting with new features in Chrome, tacking in JavaScript throttling as a way to improve battery life. That’s based on a feature discovered in the latest test builds ...

Beginning with Chrome 57, the browser will limit how often a website’s JavaScript functions can run when its tab is not in focus for the user. In other words, the activity of background tabs is ...

Apps Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs – as a feature, not a bug January 26, 2017 - 5:34 pm ...