Google Chrome may be damaging your laptop's battery

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I don’t understand “tick rate”, but Business Insider saysit’s a bad thing.

2

“Running down”, and “ruining” are two different things.
If Chrome was that bad, people would be screaming about reduced battery run time.

3

So does Chrome actually have to be running to increase your “tick rate” like this, or is it permanently increased just by having Chrome installed, or by having run it at some point and then shut it down? (I have Chrome installed, and use it occasionally, but it is not my main, default browser.)

4

According to Microsoft, such a drastic change in system clock tick rate can increase power demands by up to 25%
Surprisingly, little ol’* Internet Explorer** is savvy enough to adapt its tick rate*

  • "Microsoft tests have found *
    Kind of sad that Windows is beating you at this Google…
5

its only 25% reduction in time. If you have 4 hours of battery life, chrome reduces it to as little as 3 hours… gee , big whoop… always put your laptop to sleep fully to sleep if you want to save battery

6

That seems pretty significant, frankly, and you can’t put it to sleep if you are actually trying to use it.

7

Two questions for the tech savvy:

  1. Is there an easy way for a user to see what the tick rate is?

  2. Should there be a tiny downloadable program to allow the user to restore a slower tick rate? (I realize Chrome might then re-impose irs preferred rate.)

8

So buy a better battery, for Christ’s sake… My Chromebook Acer C720 goes almost 12 hours on a battery charge.

9

So you’re cool with your 12-hour battery working for only 9 hours?

10

Yeup! Spinning hard drives? Windows?? The world moves on.

11

There are multiple timers available on computers these days. I wonder if Chrome is simply using one of them instead.