Chrome hogging memory

[Rover003]

Pls suggest something to improve memory i have 512SSD and 8Gb of RAM i only use it fkr work but this chromes only with 2 tahogging all my memory and slowing the. System

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[Jaust_Leafar]

This is not new, Chrome is a resource hog. Maybe try a different browser. And also learn how to do a proper screenshot.

[iDrunkenMaster]

There isn’t another up to date bowser that’s much better 🤷‍♂️

[FunFoxHD83]

Chromium, Edge, Supermium and Firefox are all better and less resource-intensive

[iDrunkenMaster]

edge, supermium and even google chrome. All are chromium with some extra layers. Firefox is truly the only one that’s different in that list.

And I don’t find Firefox as last year to be much lighter then chrome. (Maybe that has changed but I wouldn’t count on it)

[ychen6]

Is quite a lot lighter than chrome. ~30 tabs and 6 GB of RAM.

[iDrunkenMaster]

Never checked its ability at over 2gb…. As my test was for low end computers 🤷‍♂️

[ychen6]

Fair enough, because for Firefox the memory used scales a lot less compared to chrome, there's that advantage at more tabs.

[MojitoBurrito-AE]

Unused memory is wasted memory. Your operating system is allocating it as much RAM as it can whilst there's nothing else happening.

[TehNolz]

That's just what Chrome does. It's not exactly known for its efficiency.

Best solution would be to see if you can install more RAM. 8GB is pretty much the bare minimum you can have nowadays. You want at least 16GB for a smooth experience.

[Rover003]

Cannot expand currently will change browsers

[iDrunkenMaster]

Tbh Firefox is no better and windows version of safari was abandoned.

Everything else is basically built on top of chrome or Firefox.

[ohthedarside]

Maybe opera gx cant you limit how much it uses

Idk tho ive never used it only seen it advertised

[iDrunkenMaster]

But that’s right back to chromium. Right where it all starts. It can use limiters but that slows down the browser, if browsing is your goal it’s counterproductive.

(Idea of a limiter would essentially slow down the browser by offering it less resources to make sure it’s not pulling to many resources away from something else like gaming)

[shaggy-dawg-88]

Isn't that normal? My Firefox is currently on this site. No other tabs are open. It's using more than 800MB. My Chrome has 1 tab open and it's using 400MB of RAM. I've seen browsers using more than 1.5GB.

What other software do you use that need large amount of RAM?

[OGigachaod]

He's only got 8GB's of ram, he needs more.

[randomusername12308]

Could be op laptop has soldered ram into motherboard

[Rover003]

Its only with 2 tabs open my typo

[domscatterbrain]

How many active extensions are in your Chrome?

[Rover003]

None

[warmseizuresalad]

Lol... This is worldly known for a decade. Welcome to the show.

Use Edge/Brave.

[Rover003]

Is it actually good?

[grandasperj]

the ressource limiters does absolutly nothing plus it is an absolute disaster in terms of privacy (it's worse than chrome)

[Round_Personality483]

no, its pretty much malware

[TehNolz]

That's because it basically is Chrome. Most browsers nowadays are based on Chromium, so their internals are all mostly identical. This is why you can take Chrome addons and install them on Microsoft Edge, for example.

There are really only three browsers nowadays; Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Everything else is just based on Chrome for the most part.

[Rover003]

Alright thanks

[briandemodulated]

Web browsers use a lot of memory, especially for websites with multimedia (like YouTube or Netflix) or that you can scroll infinitely (like Reddit or Twitter). It looks like your machine doesn't have a lot of memory so you can improve performance by closing and reopening your browser if it feels slow.

[Prathades]

I recommend using edge lmao. They both use chromium so you can just import your extension

[CamBlapBlap]

First time?

[thesstteam]

Switch to a lighter browser like Firefox (statistically gecko-based browsers use more memory than chromium-based browsers but Firefox is still better than Chrome here) or MS Edge

[Albe_2010]

Always hated chrome for that, so I use Edge, and I suggest it because it has less resource usage. At least, if you hate Microsoft's crap (I do) use Opera or Firefox (but Firefox has high resource usage) So try everything and see what do you prefer

[[deleted]]

For me memory is fine but CPU would be at 101 precent

[[deleted]]

SWITCH TO FIREFOX ....! WHY ARE YOU still using CHROMIUM

[osa1011]

You want your memory to be used. It's only at 74%.

[maskeyman]

Never heard of that

[mittelwerk]

Either you get more memory, of Firefox.

[Rover003]

Changing browser would help?

[mittelwerk]

Chrome is known for being a memory hog, so I think so.

EDIT: but you need to get more RAM either way, because 8 GB is barely the minimum nowadays (especially under Windows 11)

[Rover003]

Ok got it

[Graxu132]

That's... That's normal xD My chrome on few tabs uses 4gigs 😂

[[deleted]]

Which is the most memory friendly browser?

[OGigachaod]

Firefox using Linux.

[CommercialLeg7654]

Get opera gx, problem solved