Google Chrome has this slight problem where it hoards RAM and battery like Smaug hoards shiny things. It sucks, and it completely ruins an otherwise perfect browser. But luckily, Google knows about Chrome’s problems, and it has a twelve-step program to fix things.
In a post on Google+, the Senior Software Engineer on the Chrome team has laid out a number of upcoming changes that should reduce CPU strain (and consequently improve battery life). Background tabs won’t have the same priority as foreground tabs (something mobile browsers have been doing for years), and the CPU strain is 2/3rds lower on some pages, like search results.
