Well, this is promising. Apparently Chrome has an annoying habit of draining laptop batteries when left running. And this issue has been around for years, with no fix in sight. Cut to a few days ago, when Forbes published an article about the problem. Now Google is saying that a fix is on the way.

The upshot? That even the mighty Google can be shamed into fixing things. Okay, folks, let’s all start screaming about the ridiculous lack of a bookmark sidebar in Chrome. Maybe if we make enough noise, that long-requested feature will finally appear.