Why is Chrome eating up my battery?

[jas5279]

Why is Chrome eating up my battery? MBP Pro 2017 13".

I went from 100% to 55% in less than 2:30 hours. And time remaining is around 2:30 too. Chrome seems to be eating up my battery. I'm just doing surfing. 5-6 tabs open at a time. Nothing too resource intensive. No streaming or movie playing etc. Just surfing. What is this 'Google Chrome Helper'?

Any suggestions?

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[CryBloodwing]

I know Chrome tends to eat up a ton of power on almost all Macs. Safari is the most energy friendly browser. The only things you could do if you want to use Chrome is to change things on your mac that help save energy in general:

1. get a bigger battery
2. Turn brightness as far down as possible, quit every other source that is using energy
3. Read this for Google Chrome Helper. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/google-chrome-helper/
4. Turn off bluetooth, Time Machine, backlit keyboard, spotlight indexing
5. enable private browsing
6. Choose automatic graphic switching(macbook pro only)
7. eject any disks that may be in the computer

 

[Bart Kela]

One possibility is that one or more of the sites you commonly visit is surreptitiously engaging in bitcoin mining. I would install the NoCoin browser extension for Google Chrome and see if that makes a difference.

Google Chrome has a reputation for being a resource pig, so I tend to use that browser sparingly.