Microsoft has always promoted Edge as a power-saving browser, and when they released the latest version of Edge using the Chromium engine, Microsoft also sent some of its “tricks” and techniques to the open-source Chromium project.
Recently, a Google Chrome engineer stated that Google is currently planning to test these techniques and then apply them to the Chrome browser. Among them are three notable improvements:
First, reducing disk caching while watching videos by storing it in RAM, thus allowing the disk to be able to “rest” longer and save more battery.
Second, checking whether the laptop is plugged in or not, and if necessary, the browser will switch to power-saving mode.
And finally, optimizing the cache memory when browsing the web depending on the file size.
Users will see these features added to the upcoming Chrome Canary version, and this will make the competition between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome more intense than ever.
However, one concerning thing is that Google Chrome is currently quite RAM-hungry, and according to the above, it is expected to consume even more RAM than before. We will have to wait for the official version to see how it turns out.
Source: MSpoweruser, edited by Gearvn