This showed a list of active tasks and a proper ‘Exit’ option. Google used to make it easy to tell when background apps were active as it’d show a Google Chrome icon in the system tray (bottom right corner of your desktop screen). Some apps and extension can “ask” the browser to stay awake so that they can continue to function e.g., to deliver notifications of new e-mail messages, or keep a chat alive. Whether this happens (or not) depends on the sort of applications and extensions you have installed in Chrome. The browser continues to run in the background on Windows (and Linux) systems - something you might never notice. Just closing the Google Chrome window doesn’t quit the browser fully. However, this isn’t always the case with Google Chrome. Historically, closing an application in Windows is straightforward: you click or tap on the ‘x’ window control button and that’s it it’s closed. The fix? Closing the browser when it’s not needed. While Google gets to work fixing the Chrome battery drain issue affecting Windows users, an easy interim solution may help preserve laptop battery life in the meantime.

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