Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· joramhoefs

Save battery life - non GPU accelerated Chrome

Google Chrome/Chromium uses the discrete graphics card on our beloved mobile macs by default so the the battery is draining and the fans are screaming. but there is a solution:

open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/ --args --gpu-switching=force_integrated --ignore-gpu-blacklist