New Performance Settings are in the works that will add performance boosts for Chromebooks and the Chrome browser. Here are the details.
Browsing: battery life
Chrome OS supports different display rates, but it could sap your Chromebook battery. A change may adjust screen refresh rate based on power.
Viewing data on the health of your Chromebook battery isn’t the most user friendly experience. And there’s more data that could be shown. An in-progress change to Chrome OS will expose Smart Battery metrics that would help.
One small code change could have a large positive effect on how long you can browse on your Chromebook: Initial tests suggest up to a 28 percent battery life boost in Chrome OS. Here’s how it works.