Chrome JavaScript timer throttling: Google's tests show it saves up to 2 hours' battery life Chrome will soon throttle JavaScript timers in the background, so the browser uses significantly less ...

Executing JavaScript code will definitely involve the processor cache and a high-resolution timer is accessible via browser performance API.

The search giant has announced that starting with Chrome 86, it will ship a new feature that limits JavaScript timer wake ups in background web pages.

This tutorial discussed how to work with date and time in JavaScript with and without external libraries. Working with dates is always painful in almost (if not all) programming languages.

Google is testing changes to the JavaScript timers for background tabs in Chrome that improve battery usage by 13% to 28%. Users can enable the feature in the Canary version of Chrome and Edge.

Google is planning to add a new Chrome feature that could lead to drops of almost 30% in battery usage by throttling JavaScript timers in background tabs.

CVE-2017-5928 is assigned to track the JavaScript timer issues in different browsers Below are the 22 CPU models and micro-architectures that researchers tested and found vulnerable to AnC attacks.