Microsoft To Fix The Battery Drain Issue On Chromium Browsers

Microsoft is working on a solution to limit battery drain in its Chromium-based browsers.

Battery-drain issue in browsers finally addressed by Microsoft

This has been a problem with the company’s previous browsers, and now it’s trying to address it. More specifically, Microsoft wants to implement a solution that will improve battery usage when streaming media content.

Here’s how the battery-drain issue affects Windows 10 PCs:

The use of the disk surely affects the battery life, but the bigger problem is that the OS is prevented from entering lower-powered modes, which affects the battery significantly.

The current behavior is that the media content is added to the general HTTP cache during acquisition and playback. This has a negative impact on battery life as keeping the disk active increases power consumption in general, and can also prevent certain lower-power modes from being engaged in the operation system. The proposal is to prevent streaming media content from being cached to disk where possible.

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Initial battery tests look promising

Microsoft ran local testing by playing back unencrypted 1080p streaming media content on a laptop while disconnected from power and the initial results look promising.

With the solution implemented, the system disk write activity decreased by 309KB/sec.

The feature seems to work well, but only time will tell if it will make its way on Microsoft’s Chromium-based browsers or it will remain just a test.

If you want to extend your laptop’s battery life, we’ve prepared some tips & tricks that will surely help you do that.

For further details about the implementation and how it works, you can check out the official GitHub page.

Do you have battery-drain issues on your Windows 10 PC?

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Battery-drain issue in browsers finally addressed by Microsoft#

Initial battery tests look promising#

Battery-drain issue in browsers finally addressed by Microsoft

Initial battery tests look promising