Google Chrome is a largely uncontested browser. This is at least the opinion of most users, who provide Chrome with a 90% market share. This is an incredible figure, which seems even more incredible given the fact that Chrome is, in principle, far from ideal. It is not very safe, it is far from being a benchmark in terms of performance and consumes a lot of resources, which forces many users to show their displeasure to Google, and in some cases even go to competitors. Therefore, Google decided that by all means they would make Chrome normal. Again.
Chrome is consuming too many resources, but Google intends to fix it
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Google is working to reduce Chrome resource consumption across all platforms, but the company is focusing on Windows and Android, where the browser is the most resource-hungry. The primary goal that the developers set themselves is to reduce the consumption of RAM. This is now a serious problem that prevents users from working with a large number of tabs at the same time. They just drop all the RAM, causing open web pages to start reloading.
How to reduce RAM consumption in Chrome
Tabs in Chrome literally gobble up all the RAM
To reduce resource consumption, Google plans to implement PartitionAlloc-everywhere feature in Chrome. It will solve several problems at once: it will allow the browser to launch faster, speed up the loading of web pages and optimize the consumption of other resources, incl. RAM and CPU resource. This feature is Google’s own development, on which it began working last year and, obviously, had it in mind when talking about plans to reduce the resource intensity of the browser in the foreseeable future.
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It’s hard to say how quickly Google will be able to bring the new technology to mind and integrate it into Chrome. After all, such innovations, as a rule, take quite a long time to execute. Consider the back and forward cache mechanism that allowed Chrome to instantly load the page on return. This allowed us to significantly speed up the browser, since 19% of all transitions in Chrome are backtracks, and it was strange to load the page again if it had already loaded a few minutes earlier.
Why Google chrome eats RAM
Reducing the consumption of RAM is mostly requested on Windows
As for the RAM consumption of Chrome, this is its real scourge that interferes with stable work. This is largely due to extensions, which are, as it were, separate applications that run on the power of the browser. Because of them, Chrome eats up all the RAM and CPU resources, causing a decrease in the speed of the computer. On Android, the situation is a little better due to the lack of extensions, but overall this is quite limiting for users.
Google will stop releasing Chrome updates for older PCs
Google has long been trying to fix the flaws that cause Chrome to consume more resources than other browsers. The search giant comes out with a public appeal to users several times a year, promising to reduce the consumption of RAM and reduce the load on the central processor, thereby overclocking its web browser. Undoubtedly, some work in this direction is underway, and certain functions appear in Chrome that speed up its work, but in a global sense, no changes are taking place.
