As the open source nature of Chromium, the browser after Microsoft's Edge to Chromium, has been doing its contribution. Microsoft recently introduced a feature suggestion is: to improve the battery life of user equipment by reducing unnecessary media cache, Google has adopted and applied it to Chromium.
"At present, access and media content during playback cache to disk, the disk held in this process is active will increase power consumption and prevent the operating system into low-power mode," Microsoft developer Shawn Pickett explained, "Because the media has a high utilization rate, a negative impact of additional battery will battery life. this change will prevent certain media content to the disk cache to improve the battery life of user equipment. "
Microsoft has spent years optimizing a previous version of Microsoft Edge battery life, the results at a glance, the classic Edge battery life is generally better than Chrome and other browsers.
The new recommendations are as Chrome Canary (Chrome nighttime version 78) experimental features for testing, but not enabled by default, users need to open chrome: // flags, and search Turn off caching of streaming media to disk can be. If the test goes well, it will default implementation and enabled in your browser.
Source: thurrott.com