The new version of Chrome began to consume less memory and battery
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
The Chrome browser is by far the most functional software for the Internet. But they have long memory usage has exceeded all possible limits and has become a real problem for many users. In Google's too preoccupied with this issue and have taken steps to address it.
In the recently published 45th Google Chrome stable release, developers have used new optimization algorithms consumption of system resources, resulting in savings of RAM at the level of 10-25% compared with the previous versions. This is especially please those users who are accustomed to working with a lot of open tabs. Now when you start the browser will load the last pages viewed, and the rest will be loaded only at the moment when the user accesses it. This will allow the winning run in the speed and RAM consumption already at the start.
The second innovation is useful in the long process of surfing. Special intelligent mechanism allows the browser to release the memory from the pages that are currently open in a background tab. Now, in theory, even heavy sites, opened in inactive tabs should take a minimum of memory. These two technologies for
approval Google, you will need to save up to 45% of memory on such heavy sites, such as, Gmail.In addition, the browser policy towards multimedia content has been changed, are displayed using Flash technology. Now, various animation and advertising, before repeating endlessly in circles, will automatically pause the playback after one cycle. This will help to significantly reduce power consumption, in what previous constantly criticized Chrome.
But that's not all!
In future versions, we are waiting for the next steps to reduce appetites browser. Currently, the Chrome Canary assembly tested Function Tab Discarding. It enables the browser to completely cover you do not need at the moment the site, but do it in such a way that their tabs remain in place. About the way it makes the expansion of Great Suspender, which we wrote about here.
You can try this function in that case, if you use one of the experimental Chrome builds. To activate it, type in the address bar of the browser chrome: // flags / # enable-tab-discarding, Put the switch in the "on" position, and then restart the program. To control the operation of functions Tab Discarding a special special page chrome: // discards.
On this page you will be able to manually upload any of the open tabs in the browser, while usually this mechanism is automatically triggered by a lack of system resources. Here you can see general information about the number of released using Tab Discarding memory.
It seems that Google listened to user complaints and began to move in the right direction. Whether Chrome can be compared to the consumption of resources, at least with Firefox? And not to get lost either because of its advantage in speed? Express your opinion in the comments!