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What does Chrome do that takes so much memory? I have three tabs open only.

  • This page of course

  • an article on gameskinny.com

  • one tab with Google search

    None of the last two are more demanding than superuser.com but still it's using 1 GB of RAM.

Is the memory usage really necessary or is there any way I can restrict it and still use Chrome?

Dave M
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Daarwin
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    Possible duplicate of [Web browser memory usage](https://superuser.com/questions/159596/web-browser-memory-usage) – music2myear May 16 '19 at 18:52
  • I've edited your question, since I think the last part of your post is what you really want to know. "How does Chrome use the ram" seems like something that could get very technical and not really help you reduce your chrome memory issue. – Outdated Computer Tech May 16 '19 at 19:47
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    Duplicate of [Limiting use of RAM in Chrome?](https://superuser.com/questions/413349/limiting-use-of-ram-in-chrome) – Dan Dascalescu Mar 02 '20 at 01:43

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You can use the extension like TabSuspender which will reduce the memory usage by Chrome upto 80%

From the extension's doc:

Automatically suspend, park, hibernate inactive tabs and save up to 80% of memory, reduce load on your device, battery and heat.

I have 56 tabs open in my chrome at this moment, which consumes around 2 GB only as per Chrome's task manager.

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