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What does Chrome do that takes so much memory? I have three tabs open only.

  • This page of course

  • an article on gameskinny.com

  • one tab with Google search

    None of the last two are more demanding than superuser.com but still it's using 1 GB of RAM.

Is the memory usage really necessary or is there any way I can restrict it and still use Chrome?

Dave M
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Daarwin
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You can use the extension like TabSuspender which will reduce the memory usage by Chrome upto 80%

From the extension's doc:

Automatically suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory, reduce load on your device, battery and heat.

I have 56 tabs open in my chrome at this moment, which consumes around 2 GB only as per Chrome's task manager.

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