Google Chrome may be the most popular Internet browser, but it's not perfect. If you use it a lot and keep a lot of tabs open, you'll probably notice that it's using a lot of your memory.
In fairness to Chrome, it's not necessarily any worse than other browers. As I type this, I have six tabs open in Chrome: Facebook, Feedly, Twitter, two Blogger tabs, and the article that I'm writing about. According to Task Manager, that totals to 1,231 MB, or about 15 percent of my installed RAM. I opened the same tabs in Firefox (just updated today), and it used 1287 MB, about 16 percent. That's not a huge difference.
Still, if you're one of those people who keeps a lot of tabs open, you may want to trim Chrome's memory usage. The article, How to Control Chrome's Memory Usage and Free Up RAM, offers some useful tips. I didn't know that Chrome has it's own Task Manager, which shows you memory usage by tab, process, and extension. Using it, I found that one extension, Password Checkup, was using almost 400 MB of RAM.
If you must keep a lot of tabs open, the article describes several extensions that you can use to manage them. You can also use some text and reading extensions that will cut down on the elements loaded into a tab (graphics, ads, embedded videos), with the side benefit of making the content easier to read.
For Chrome users, this is a must read.
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