It seems the HPET timer was added to help with event timing for a more smoother UI feel and to help sync hardware to the UI better, i.e. not going laggy whilst copying 80GB of films music and ...

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. Chrome's new feature will be part of the ...

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.

According to the explainer, the intensive throttling of JavaScript timer wakeups is only targeting web pages that don't stop timers on visibilitychange events and those who haven't switched to ...