![]() Let’s hope the next version of Chrome will be more lightweight and not so RAM greedy. Those are the extensions I tried out, and they all worked well in cutting down on memory usage. It’s not as versatile as Great Suspender, but it’s less buggy. Your tabs won’t get lost and you can restore them with a single mouse click. It hibernates all tabs except the active tab. Tab Hibernation does one thing and does it well: sends your tabs to sleep. Your old computer can now handle as many tabs as you desire. This reduces the number of dom elements on the page and ensures no memory leaks or excessive javascripts are running. A tab can be restored by clicking anywhere on the page when it is needed. By using this extension, you can put all of those unused tabs to sleep to save memory on your device and make Chrome, as well as your computer, run smoother. This extension will unload, park, or suspend each tab while retaining its favicon and title text. The Great Suspender also helps reduce Chrome’s memory footprint but still lets you display your many tabs. OneTab advertises saving up to 95% memory in Google Chrome when I tested it, I didn’t get that good of a result, but still saved over 600 MBs of RAM with 15 tabs open. Depending on how many scripts are running inside your tabs, moving them to OneTab can also speed up your computer by reducing the CPU load. ![]() With the OneTab extension it doesn’t matter how many tabs you have open because OneTab converts all your open tabs into a single list, so those open tabs are merged into a single tab. Reducing the number of open tabs saves RAM. I would recommend downloading only one, as more extensions will use more RAM. If you don’t want to switch from Chrome, try downloading one of the following Chrome extensions to help reduce memory usage. Firefox appears to be a far more lightweight browser, a drastic improvement over older versions. Take a look at how much memory your Chrome tabs and extensions by copying chrome://memory-redirect/ in your browser.Īfter doing a few tests with the same 15 tabs open in Mozilla Firefox, memory usage is 35 to 45% lower. In Chrome, 15 tabs can range from 1 GB to 2 GB of memory used, depending on the media content. Most laptops don’t come with a huge amount of RAM once the allotted memory is full, the computer can’t process any more actions.Įach new tab that is opened in the browser will consume more RAM. One of its biggest flaws is how much of your computer’s RAM it eats up. For everyone else - consider which extensions you really need.Google Chrome may be most people’s favorite browser, but it’s far from perfect. If you are another of those two million users, I recommend you review whether your personal information may have been breached. ![]() It looks like the timeouts have been running a lot slower. My other browsers are fortunately limited in their use of extensions, but this is an object lesson for me. Now if I run the test in Chrome and let it run in a background tab (so, switching to another tab and browse on there), returning to the test and inspecting the results (if the test finished) they are dramatically changed. Something for all of us to consider in all the browsers we use. (Actually, the latter is debatable - but…) A shame - some of them were useful - but I do not absolutely need to be directed to Amazon Smile every time I shop on Amazon - nor do I need to know how many tabs I have open. I have gone through my extensions now and removed all the ones that I do not consider critical and/or whose publisher I trust not to sell. ![]() Except The Great Suspender was well known - it had over two million installs!
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