The tales that have connected Google’s Chrome browser with being a massive resource hog date way back. I think a lot of us have seen firsthand at some point how much RAM the browser likes to drink up and how that can affect your computer’s performance in a relatively significant fashion.
Google has been optimizing performance for a long time, but today, the browser will introduce some new performance-oriented features to give you even more control over how Google Chrome handles your system resources.
Google Chrome Is Getting New Performance-Focused Features In Three Domains
In this tech-fueled world, we love to have everything fast. Our devices need to be fast, our internet needs to be fast, and our apps need to be fast. That includes web browsers like Google Chrome, which might be the most popular one in the world, but has a reputation for sucking your device’s resources up with a giant straw.
To help remedy that situation and improve Chrome’s performance on your device, Google is introducing some new and helpful features.
Performance Detection Will Provide Optimized Browsing With A Single Click
One of the new features coming to Google Chrome is called Performance Detection. Chrome is always assessing its performance, and in instances where it might notice that things are moving as smoothly as they should be, it can bring up a “Performance issue alert” to let you know.
When it does this, it’s to offer you a potential solution to improve performance. For instance, that might be to deactivate the tabs that are determined to be hogging the most resources. In the alert that appears, simply press the “Fix now” button and Chrome will go through with the recommendation that it gave you, instantly improving performance.
Memory Saver Introduces New Modes
Google Chrome has had a feature called Memory Saver for some time now, which you can access from Settings, and then Performance. It is quite obvious to all of us that the feature exists to free up RAM—Chrome has a reputation for attacking RAM with no mercy. That was the main thing that chased me over to Microsoft’s Edge.
Memory Saver now has a Moderate, Balanced, and Maximum mode available. In the Moderate mode, tabs are only deactivated based on what your system needs. In the Balanced mode, your system’s needs as well as your browsing habits are considered. But, in Maximum, tabs are deactivated a lot quicker, and soon after you’ve stopped using them, so this setting is more aggressive.
Performance Controls Get More In-Depth
Finally, some of the other performance controls in Google Chrome are being made even more customizable.
You now get the power to choose certain websites that will never be deactivated, which can be important for pages that might be doing work in the background, like uploading files or doing calculations. This will certainly be a lifesaver for many.
In addition, if you don’t want to see the visual indicators for inactive tabs or how much memory each tab is using, you now have the power to toggle that on or off.
