Today in this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to enable or disable this new background tabs throttling feature in Google Chrome and Opera web browsers.

So basically this new throttling feature has been developed to maximize your device battery life and you should see some or little improvement in your device’s battery life if you are using Chrome 57 or later or Opera 44 or later versions. The new “Background Tab Throttling” functionality throttles background tabs using excessive power to optimize your device’s battery life.

When you open multiple tabs in your web browser, it affects power usage and battery life of your computer or mobile device. In other words, this feature has been introduced to improve battery life of your device. According to the official description of this new feature, it enables intervention to limit CPU usage of background timers to 1%. Chrome 57 and Opera 44 come with a new feature called “ Background Tab Throttling” or “ Background Timer Throttling“. The latest versions of Google Chrome and Opera web browsers i.e.

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