Kill the most greedy websites with fire and notify their developers. If you feel that your laptop battery is struggling because of the Chrome, check out the Chrome Task Manager. I can live without pinned tab about exchange rates, if that makes my laptop alive for twice the time.
And look at this, when I have this page opened and pinned: Tab XE.com is sooooooo CPU intensive (the tab was inactive when I created the screenshot) I had the currency exchange rates (USD to EUR) opened all the time. Find the tabs that are constantly greedy for your CPU and kill them with fire! What you’re interested in is the CPU - this is what is draining your battery. When opened, it will reveal more fine-grained details about CPU and RAM spent within Chrome. It is called Task Manager and you can find it in Menu > More Tools > Task Manager. There is one not-so-well known tool in Chrome, that allows you to analyse how much resources the individual tabs consume. I have couple of pinned tabs which I want always open and then come the tabs that “ come and go”. I literally had to close one single tab in Chrome, which was using lots of CPU. So, how did I manage to cut it down to about one third? By the time I went to analyze it for the first time, the Avg Energy Impact value for Chrome was well over 100, around 140. The screenshot above was taken at the time I am writing this and it showing the “fixed” Chrome. You can solve the problem easily by quitting the app, but as I mentioned, this was not viable in my case, as I want to use Chrome. If you sort the list by column Avg Energy Impact, you will find the most troublesome apps. But then one day about 2 weeks ago, when I was lying ill in my bed, I decided to check what is draining my battery so fast and if I can fix it.įortunately the OS X comes with the Activity Monitor, which also gives you the overview which apps put most impact on your battery life. It is normal that it is losing its power over time. I use Chrome for this, I rarely open any other browser - most of the time for testing only.Ĭhrome is generally known not being energy efficient app, so it is a trade-off, but I find it much better (especially for dev) than anything else.įor quite some time now I started to notice that the battery is not lasting as long as it used to when I bought this laptop a year and a half ago. This is mostly because I read stuff, stick on social media or develop websites. I spend most of the time on my laptop in the browser. It is so easy to do once you know where to look. Today I want to share a quick and easy hack that doubled the time-on-battery on my laptop. By Primož Cigler How I doubled the battery life on my Mac by literally closing one tab in a browser
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