Google realizes that its Chrome Web browser is a battery hog, but it wants to make things better.

In a recent Google+ post(Opens in a new window), Chrome Engineer Peter Kasting said one of the biggest complaints about the browser is that it sucks battery, “especially on Mac where Safari seems to do better.” But the Chrome team has rolled out a few changes to remedy the issue.

For starters, the browser previously rendered all background tabs with the same priority as foreground tabs. Now, renders for background tabs will get a lower priority, reducing so-called “idle wakeups”—which cause battery drain—in some cases by 50 percent, Kasting said.

He added that other recent changes have reduced CPU use by 66 percent when visiting a Google search page and 70 percent for Amazon.com. These changes put Chrome on par with Apple’s Safari browser for these two popular Web destinations, Kasting said.

“The Chrome team has no intention of sitting idly by (pun intended) when our users are suffering,” Kasting wrote. “You should expect us to continually improve in this area.”

Meanwhile, this is not the first we’re hearing about Chrome’s battery-hogging ways. Last year, word spread that Chrome had been unnecessarily killing battery life and slowing down Windows laptop performance for years due to a bug involving the system clock tick rate. Thanks to a report in Forbes, Google finally committed to fixing the flaw, which it had known about for six years and affected those using Chrome on a laptop running Windows 7 and earlier.