Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by feross » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 5:36 PM UTC

Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks
blog.chromium.org

Re: Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

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Post by repeek » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:36 PM UTC

Will this also improve performance of Electron apps on Mac?

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Post by Klonoar » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:44 PM UTC

repeek wrote: post #2

Will this also improve performance of Electron apps on Mac?

It would need to get into Electron, if possible, then apps would need to update to the newest Electron - which many apps don’t always do.

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Post by pipeline_peak » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 7:54 PM UTC

Does anyone know how to get a job as a chrome developer?

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Post by zuhsetaqi » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 8:35 PM UTC

> In our testing, we found that you can browse for 17 hours or watch YouTube for 18 hours on a MacBook Pro (13", M2, 2022)

Compared to which numbers before the update?

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Post by brundolf » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 8:42 PM UTC

It's funny, all three of these optimizations seem like they would mainly apply to ads and tracking scripts

One interpretation is that those are just one of the biggest power-sinks, so they're a high-value thing to target. But a cynical take is that the Chrome team is trying to give people less reason to use an ad blocker (or just generally make ads/tracking more tolerable). Of course both can be true at the same time

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Post by cpcallen » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 9:42 PM UTC

pipeline_peak wrote: post #4

Does anyone know how to get a job as a chrome developer?

Given that Google is currently conducting layoffs I suspect this is rather harder than usual just now. That said:

- I see at least one Chrome-related job still being advertised. [1] - I imagine that having a track record of making significant contributions to the Chromium open-source project might be the kind of thing that makes a difference in get yourself an interview for such a position.

[1]: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/92917086071726790-se...

[Disclaimer: I work at Google but have no direct knowledge of recruiting in general or for Chrome in particular; everything in this post is based on public information and/or my own opinion.]

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Post by olliej » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

pipeline_peak wrote: post #4

Does anyone know how to get a job as a chrome developer?

I’d suggest contributing to blink as an OSS developer to get your name known.

But at the same time Google is laying off thousands of people atm so I wouldn’t hold my breath for any reqs.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

olliej wrote: post #8

pipeline_peak wrote: post #4

Does anyone know how to get a job as a chrome developer?

I’d suggest contributing to blink as an OSS developer to get your name known. But at the same time Google is laying off thousands of people atm so I wouldn’t hold my breath for any reqs.

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Post by voidwtf » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

Can someone explain to me how I'm supposed to develop an Enterprise web app, that requires a regular "liveliness" check-in and to continue to receive timely notifications without internet access (internal only)?

Between all the creative ways they're finding to decide they should throttle a tab or put it to sleep, and the ways they keep screwing with timers/intervals, I feel like I'm being forced back to pushing for a fat client. Is there web technology I'm missing that will allow me to achieve this without having to use internet access and pushing notifications through a third party?