Are you fed up of Google Chrome sucking your battery and heating up your lap when it displays Adobe Flash animations? You’re not alone: Google’s fed up with it, too. So it’s quietly added a new feature, which selectively pauses “unimportant” Flash objects.

It’s not enabled by default, though. But yesterday’s beta build now makes it the default, and that’ll migrate to the stable version in a few months’ time. So advertisers beware!

You don’t need to be running the beta to try it out: In Chrome 43, you can enable the feature for yourself.

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