chrome is a popular browser for a reason: it’s fast, powerful, and compatible with popular apps, services, and extensions. Although all that powercomes from somewhere, and ends up putting pressure on your RAM. Chrome is a memory hog. Fortunatelynow there is an easy solution to the problem.
Why does Chrome use so much memory?
Each tab you open is a new activity for Chrome to manage, and the browser makes a point of running each tab as its own process. That way something can go wrong with a tab without affecting others. Chrome is also fast due to its pre-rendering feature, which takes up RAM so things load as fast as possible. Also, the more tabs you open,and the most resource-intensive tasks you run on those tabs:more RAM you will use.
It’s It’s not really a problem until it becomes one: if your system runs out of RAM, you run into performance issues, all because your Internet browser can’t handle your RAM properly.
How Memory Saver can preserve RAM when using Chrome
Fortunately, Google has addressed these issues with a new feature called “memory saving.” With it, Chrome will automatically turn off unused tabs while you work on other tabs. When you return to these inactive tabs, Chrome will reactivate them. According to the company, Memory Saver can use up to 30% less memory than running Chrome without it, which should solve most memory problems with the browser.
Memory Saver isn’t the only new “Performance” feature coming to Chrome. Google also introduced a “energy Saver” feature also, which reduces performance to preserve battery life, such as essential for those of us who work on laptops.
How to use Memory Saver to free up RAM in Chrome
Memory Saver will be officially released to users in the coming weeks, nevertheless it’s’It is available as a feature indicator at this time. The flags are “experimental features” that Chrome hides from most users; yessome arenorth’It’s not finished yet, which means it could have detrimental effects on your browser. However, since Memory Saver is almost here, it seems like a safe flag to enable.
To verify, paste the following link into your address bar, then hit enter: chrome://flags/#high-efficiency-mode-available. Here, click on “Default”, choose “Enabled” and then click on “Reset”. When Chrome restarts, head over to Settings and you’ll see a new “Performance” tab on the left side of the screen where “Memory Saver” is now located. Click the slider to activate the feature. If there are sites that you prefer Chrome to always keep active, you can click “Add” to add them to the list. no every time you return to a tab that was inactive, Chrome will alert you Y tell you how much RAM it saved by making it idle.
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