Question How to optimize RAM for chrome ?

[Jia Sharma]

I have 16 GB of ram installed on my laptop. At its peak, 80% is in use because I have a habit of using multiple chrome browsers at the same time which uses mostly 80% of ram. I want to know is there any way to optimize ram uses so google chrome does not use that much ram.

 

[Lutfij]

By peak, what are you referring to? How many tabs do you have opened up? How many extensions do you have installed on your Chrome browser? Might want to parse the version(not edition) for your OS, if you're on Windows 10. Also, please parse the make and model of your laptop. If possible, parse the SKU to said laptop and it's BIOS version.

 

[hotaru.hino]

If Chrome has an option or has an extension to hibernate tabs, then use that. Otherwise, the only way to reduce RAM usage is to not have so many tabs/instances open.

 

[lvt]

The only correct way to reduce RAM usage is to reduce the number of browser windows.

 

[hornirl]

Maybe take a look at this for some ideas? Or rethink why you're using multiple instances and consolidate on a browser that is better with multiple tabs? Take a look at Vivaldi for example, which I switched to.

 

[Jia Sharma]

By peak, what are you referring to? How many tabs do you have opened up? How many extensions do you have installed on your Chrome browser? Might want to parse the version(not edition) for your OS, if you're on Windows 10. Also, please parse the make and model of your laptop. If possible, parse the SKU to said laptop and it's BIOS version.

There are 50 + tabs are open on my laptop at a single time. (DELL Latitude 7440 i5) my Laptop Model

 

[hornirl]

There are 50 + tabs are open on my laptop at a single time. (DELL Latitude 7440 i5) my Laptop Model

Wow. Then you might find this article useful.

 

[lvt]

I can't understand why does one need 50+ tabs opened at once?

You are likely to spend most of your time navigating from a tab to another.

And if some of the tabs have a buggy web page, your whole computer will slow down.

 

[marenko022]

16GB are ideal ram for every work. I have 8GB on my old pc, so I did not have any problem with chrome.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Chrom has become an unruly pig for sure. It’s also loaded with spyware. But 50 tabs open at once is absolutely unnecessary and as mentioned above would be super confusing you would never be able to find your way back to what you were looking at a few minutes ago so Until you solve that problem your main problems not going to go away

 

[Jia Sharma]

Chrom has become an unruly pig for sure. It’s also loaded with spyware. But 50 tabs open at once is absolutely unnecessary and as mentioned above would be super confusing you would never be able to find your way back to what you were looking at a few minutes ago so Until you solve that problem your main problems not going to go away

Yeah, That what I was thinking

 

[zipspyder]

Well the most obvious and laziest way is to use an ad blocker such as Ublock or something. Or upgrade to 32GB of ram. Other than what has been posted of course.

 

[Colif]

I have 16 GB of ram installed on my laptop. At its peak, 80% is in use because I have a habit of using multiple chrome browsers at the same time

why have chrome open multiple times?
does each instance have 50 tabs open or is that total?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

There is a feature I believe that can turn off unused tabs which I believe is already been mentioned so you can tune it with the settings and then maybe even be plug-ins that allow you to find the tabs of interest