How to reduce the memory consumption of the browser Google Chrome
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
At the time of its introduction Google Chrome browser was the most lightweight among competitors and hit the speed of its launch, and lightning-fast. Since then, it took not much time, but now Google Chrome has become a real dinosaur. Swollen like on steroids, from a wide variety of functions and extensions, today it makes her wonder his infinite greed on system resources and sluggishness. There is evidence of surviving eyewitnesses of how this monster devoured 3, 4 or even 5 gigabytes of unprotected memory.
The powerful performance systems, this may not be a big problem, but if your computer is a little behind in the race megahertz and gigabytes, that he has not sweet. A little to ease his fate can and should be using one of the extensions presented in this review.
OneTab
Many users have a habit of keeping a lot of tabs open, even in cases when they are not necessary at the moment. Each background tab consumes a certain amount of memory that could be used for more useful purposes. Therefore, we recommend that you use the extension OneTab, which is one-click closes all open tabs except the one on which the saved links to all closed tabs. Thus, you can very quickly and radically to release up to 95% are Google Chrome's memory.
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The Great Suspender
Another extension, designed to deal with a large number of open tabs. In contrast to the previous one, it does not cover everything, but simply dumps the contents of the memory tabs. This can be done manually by pressing the appropriate button on the toolbar, or automatically by specifying a time period after which the tab becomes inactive. If necessary, the resumption of work with the site, you will need to click on the page and it will boot again.
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TabMemFree
A similar extension, able to automatically upload from memory the tabs that have not been accessed for a specified amount of time you have. TabMemFree has an important function of protection against freezing fixed tabs that you might find useful in If you are constantly spinning in background music player, or open e-mail and you want to protect them from closing.
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Tab Wrangler
And finally, the most interesting extension of this review. Functionally, it performs exactly the same as the previous ones, that is unloads background tab from memory, but from the standpoint of setting far superior and TabMemFree, and The Great Suspender. So, here you have the opportunity to not only specify the time period after which the tab will be deactivated, but the minimum number of tabs, after which it will operate normally. Even you can individually protect the desired tab from the effects of expansion or specify the address mask for the domains of interest to you.
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We hope that one of the available extensions in this review can win appetite Google Chrome and gives you the ability to comfortable work in the Internet with maximum speed.
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