Google moves to cut Chrome's memory usage with latest update - Polidicks

[url]http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/chrome-improvements-for-faster-and-more.html[/url] [quote]Speed is one of the founding principles of Chrome. As the web evolves and sites take advantage of increasing capabilities, Chrome’s performance—how fast pages load, how smooth scrolling is, how much memory is consumed, and how long your battery lasts—becomes even more important. So in the latest release of Chrome we’ve included a ton of improvements to make your browsing use less memory and power. Chrome has long had the option to “continue where you left off” by restoring tabs when you relaunch Chrome. Now, Chrome is smarter about restoring your tabs more efficiently. Tabs are restored from most to least recently viewed, so you get to see the most important tabs faster. And Chrome will now detect if your computer is running low on resources and stop restoring the rest of your tabs to save you precious memory. You can always click to restore them if you'd like to access them later. We’ve also introduced another memory-saving technique. Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn't busy with some other task, and use the free time to aggressively clean up old, unused memory. In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps. With Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.[/quote] [hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCxYypAFbk[/hd]

Its a start

Lately Chrome has been having issues with loading videos on occasion. It's quite strange, as I can flip over to Firefox and immediately load said video. I don't know if it's just me having this issue.

It would be nice to be able to open Chrome while playing a graphically intensive game.

I still don't care for Chrome, now if only they'd do the same for Firefox. It's a great browser, but despite many years of development, it remains a massive memory hog.

90% is better than 100%. If we can get it down to 70% of previous Chrome versions or less, I'll finally be a happy camper.

[QUOTE=mugofdoom;48609057]I still don't care for Chrome, now if only they'd do the same for Firefox. It's a great browser, but despite many years of development, it remains a massive memory hog.[/QUOTE] Firefox doesn't have 20 versions of itself in the task manager so that its hiding how much ram its using though, but yeah.. I have to agree

[QUOTE=mugofdoom;48609057]I still don't care for Chrome, now if only they'd do the same for Firefox. It's a great browser, but despite many years of development, it remains a massive memory hog.[/QUOTE] FireFox has always used much less memory for me. Chrome uses that multiple threads thing. Not sure if that itself adds to the RAM it uses, but either way, it hogs a lot of memory.

[QUOTE=FordLord;48609081]FireFox has always used much less memory for me. Chrome uses that multiple threads thing. Not sure if that itself adds to the RAM it uses, but either way, it hogs a lot of memory.[/QUOTE] Yeah Firefox does seem to at least be better these days, but I still get random crashes when I have too many tabs open (I have a tendency to not close tabs) and certain video players are extremely laggy. It also always seems to be using the most memory of anything else the vast majority of the time. Could just be because I horde tabs though. Chrome was pretty bad, it would freeze up with just a few tabs open. And I hated how you couldn't scroll through tabs, it just kind of squished them all together.

Oh, so that's why my windows freeze up if I make something else an active window? Neat!

I've switched to edge. I honestly don't see myself going back to chrome once it gets official extension support.

once edge gets adblock I'm pretty much never going to need chrome again tbh It's sandboxed, it feels a lot lighter, its faster. Edge is just [U]better[/U], even has native high contrast support. NATIVE high contrast support! no need for heavy extensions for those lovely black sites

Not touching Edge until it gets addon support. Then I'll be more than happy to try it out.

[QUOTE=Keychain;48609247]Not touching Edge until it gets addon support. Then I'll be more than happy to try it out.[/QUOTE] its really great but watching ads is a HUGE issue

firefox is still king if you like to have multiple tabs open without using ridiculous amounts of ram, chrome is reaaaally bad at it.

firefox is great if you are a dirty peasant, and Opera is great if you live in a cave, chromes great if you eat glue, and edge is great if you a glorious knight in gold and silver armor edge is obviously the master race, the one true browser [sp]not actually serious[/sp]

I find edge far clunkier and slower than Chrome tbh.

I find all the browsers to be pretty much fine, outdated browsers are the scourge of the web these days

[QUOTE=Keychain;48609247]Not touching Edge until it gets addon support. Then I'll be more than happy to try it out.[/QUOTE] Yep, once I can get Adblock on Edge, I'll probably make the switch. Until then, I'll eat the memory and CPU usage footprint

[QUOTE=J!NX;48609249]its really great but watching ads is a HUGE issue[/QUOTE] They eat up my data cap, and I, for one, can't stand people constantly trying to sell me stuff. It's obnoxious and annoying. I'll turn adblock off on certain sites that I want to support with ad revenue, but with stuff like Youtube ads it's a godsend because it uses less data. Same goes for those annoying videos on some news sites that just start playing out of nowhere.

[QUOTE=smurfy;48609383]I find all the browsers to be pretty much fine, outdated browsers are the scourge of the web these days[/QUOTE] you're not properly fueling the browser war!!

[QUOTE=mugofdoom;48609490]They eat up my data cap, and I, for one, can't stand people constantly trying to sell me stuff. It's obnoxious and annoying. I'll turn adblock off on certain sites that I want to support with ad revenue, but with stuff like Youtube ads it's a godsend because it uses less data. Same goes for those annoying videos on some news sites that just start playing out of nowhere.[/QUOTE] Nevermind the ads that come loaded with malware that you'll eventually run into and have no defense against until it's too late

[QUOTE=Zarconite;48609078]Firefox doesn't have 20 versions of itself in the task manager so that its hiding how much ram its using though, but yeah.. I have to agree[/QUOTE] The multiple thread thing isn't to hide your memory usage. It's to make sure that if a module crashes, it doesn't birng everything down.

[QUOTE=J!NX;48609233]once edge gets adblock I'm pretty much never going to need chrome again tbh It's sandboxed, it feels a lot lighter, its faster. Edge is just [U]better[/U], even has native high contrast support. NATIVE high contrast support! no need for heavy extensions for those lovely black sites[/QUOTE] I'm loving edge so far, it's so clean and fast, looks very nice too. I also enjoy having a lot of news on the home page. Microsoft have surpassed modern UI design with edge. I'm just waiting for addon support.

I can have 30+ tabs open with no problem, but I have SSD

I've found that certain webpages on Chrome (on my second monitor) make my frame rate (on my first monitor) drop from 120 to 60 with vsync enabled, I'm not quite sure why but I'm on 120Hz monitors and closing chrome immediately shoots the frame rate back up to 120. If I disable vsync it'll go to like 400-500 (on League of Legends) but it's clearly only 60 when looking at it. Kinda like chrome somehow makes my monitor's refresh rate lower? I guess it's something to do with nVidia drivers not cooperating maybe, I don't really know. It's annoying, though. It's also only a recent issue for me, I don't remember this happening much/at all a month or so ago.

[QUOTE=ChaosUnleash;48612816]I've found that certain webpages on Chrome (on my second monitor) make my frame rate (on my first monitor) drop from 120 to 60 with vsync enabled, I'm not quite sure why but I'm on 120Hz monitors and closing chrome immediately shoots the frame rate back up to 120. If I disable vsync it'll go to like 400-500 (on League of Legends) but it's clearly only 60 when looking at it. Kinda like chrome somehow makes my monitor's refresh rate lower? I guess it's something to do with nVidia drivers not cooperating maybe, I don't really know. It's annoying, though. It's also only a recent issue for me, I don't remember this happening much/at all a month or so ago.[/QUOTE] You could try turning off hardware acceleration to see if it fixes your problem.

[QUOTE=Fourier;48612653]I can have 30+ tabs open with no problem, but I have SSD[/QUOTE] You should be checking your memory usage, not disk usage

Yeah I started to try edge but ads are really fucking with me, once extension support comes in it should be all over

My biggest issue with Edge that I can't have it synced across all my devices. Complete dealbreaker.