CHROME
Conserve your laptop’s battery power
Chrome 108, which was released on 29 November, introduced a useful feature to prolong your laptop’s battery life when it’s unplugged from the mains. Similar to Edge’s ‘Efficiency mode’, the new ‘Energy saver’ option minimises the browser’s power usage by limiting background activity and visual effects.
As is often the case with Chrome, the new feature is currently an experiment that you need to activate manually. Type chrome:flags into the browser’s address bar and press Enter to load the Experiments page. Find the entry Enable the battery saver mode feature in the settings, choose Enabled in the dropdown menu next to it and relaunch Chrome.
When the browser reopens, click the three-line menu button in our screenshot below). Click this and switch on ‘Energy saver’ . You can set the feature to turn on automatically when your laptop’s battery is at 20 per cent or less, or whenever it’s unplugged.
