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Mac users will soon be able to run Chrome without watching their battery status fall by the minute, with Google tweaking the code to cut down unnecessary system wake-ups. The Chocolate Factory's main aim is to stop Chrome being a “battery hog”, according to Peter Kasting. Kasting, a senior software engineer in the Chrome UI …

  1. J__M__M

    Why stop at Mac

    Sorry, The Google, but Chrome is a bloated pig on more than just OSX. What version are you on now, 8241.3434.3434.2.2 or is it .3? How often does it check for updates? About every half a second or so?

  2. Andy E
    FAIL

    Not better than Safari.

    It seems they don't want to make Chrome better than Safari, they just want to make it a little bit better than it is at the moment.

    I think I'll stick with Safari.

  3. David Lawton

    Considering Macs are googles employee machine of choice and have over 40,000 of them deployed you would think Chrome would very fine tuned on OS X.

  4. Alan Denman

    The answer

    It sounds daft that the antique semi-EOL Safari can run better than Chrome so surely it has to be the ads.

    Simple. Use Opera instead. It uses modern Blink but with less baggage.

  5. Dan 55 Silver badge
    Meh

    I think I'll stick with Firefox, thanks

    According to some commentards it's a disaster, but at least it's not a battery-sapping memory-hogging home-phoning data funnel for an advertising multinational.

  6. DerekCurrie
    Devil

    Dear Google: How about protecting batteries AND security at the same time!

    Dump Adobe Flash. That would solve a whopping huge source of battery drain AND remove one of the two worse sources of malware on the Internet.

    Banning Oracle's Java from Chromium would be the other great security idea.

    Google, if you're REALLY serious about security, you know what to do. If you're not, it's status quo.

  7. s. pam
    Mushroom

    Hey Google, how about fixing all the crashes on iOS 8.* whilst you're at it?

    Chrome has been renamed to Choke on our iPhones and iPads at $HOME it has become a joke of who can have more crashes in a single evening!

    There was a time our favourite game was spot the recycled TV star on another programme, but that's been replaced with "Oops, Choked, again" is the battle cry.

    Sad really -- all that opportunity and this is what you get.

    PS> I wish there was a Blues Brothers Rubber Biscuit Icon El Reg!!!!!

  8. Peter Johnstone

    Refusenik

    I refuse to use chrome on principle due to the fact that its bundled with just about every second installer that you run.

    1. Sgt_Oddball

      Re: Refusenik

      So not a fan of the ask toolbar?

  9. Ian Joyner Bronze badge

    Chrome based on Safari anyway

    Well - to be more accurate based on WebKit which was developed by Apple as the HTML rendering engine of Safari.

    I got really sick of Safari's memory management - continually leaking memory and chewing it up, requiring a quit about every five days. So I thought I'd try out Firefox which crashed a lot anyway and then Chrome which was even worse. So I'm back at Safari, hoping that some day Apple will make its memory management better (although I'm not convinced that automatic reference counting will ever do that).

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