How to reduce memory consumption of Google Chrome browser

At the time of its appearance, the Google Chrome browser was the lightest among the competitors and impressed with its launch speed and lightning speed. It hasn't been that long since then, but now Google Chrome has become a real dinosaur. Swollen, like on steroids, from a wide variety of functions and extensions, today it makes you wonder at its endless greed for system resources and sluggishness. There is evidence of surviving eyewitnesses about how this monster devoured 3, 4 and even 5 gigabytes of defenseless memory.

On powerful performance systems, this may not be a big problem, but if your computer is slightly behind in the megahertz to gigabyte race, then it is having a hard time. It is possible and necessary to alleviate his fate a little with the help of one of the extensions presented in this review.

OneTab

Many users have a habit of keeping many tabs open, even when they don't need them at the moment. Each such background tab consumes a certain amount of RAM, which could be used for more useful purposes. Therefore, we recommend that you use the OneTab extension, which closes all open tabs with one click, except for one, on which links to all closed tabs are saved. Thus, you can very quickly and radically free up to 95% of the memory occupied by Google Chrome.

The great suspender

Another extension designed to deal with a large number of open tabs. Unlike the previous one, it does not close everything, but simply unloads the contents of the tabs from memory. This can be done manually by clicking the corresponding button on the toolbar or automatically by specifying the time period after which the tab becomes inactive. If you need to resume working with the site, you just need to click on the page and it will load again.

TabMemFree

A similar extension that can automatically unload from memory those tabs that have not been accessed during the time you specified. TabMemFree has an important anti-freeze function for pinned tabs, which can come in handy if you have a music player constantly spinning in the background or open mail and you want to protect them from being closed.

Tab wrangler

And in conclusion, the most interesting extension of this survey. Functionally, it does exactly the same thing as the previous ones, that is, it unloads background tabs from memory, but from the point of view of settings it is significantly superior to both TabMemFree and The Great Suspender. So, here you have the opportunity not only to specify the time period after which the tab will be deactivated, but also the minimum number of tabs after which this rule will be in effect. You can also individually protect the necessary tabs from the effects of the extension, or set an address mask for the domains you are interested in.

We hope that one of the extensions proposed in this review will be able to defeat the appetite of the Google Chrome browser and give you the opportunity to work comfortably on the Internet at maximum speed.