Chrome Ram Efficiency progress is being made, (also battery lengthening)

[Arty]

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/09/chrome-improvements-for-faster-and-more.html

 

After being idle for a short time, Chrome 45 (right) frees up nearly a quarter of the memory it was using for Gmail, a significant improvement compared to Chrome 43 (left). Video is sped up 8x.

 

Speed is one of the founding principles of Chrome. As the web evolves and sites take advantage of increasing capabilities, Chrome’s performance—how fast pages load, how smooth scrolling is, how much memory is consumed, and how long your battery lasts—becomes even more important. So in the latest release of Chrome we’ve included a ton of improvements to make your browsing use less memory and power.

 

 Chrome has long had the option to “continue where you left off” by restoring tabs when you relaunch Chrome. Now, Chrome is smarter about restoring your tabs more efficiently. Tabs are restored from most to least recently viewed, so you get to see the most important tabs faster. And Chrome will now detect if your computer is running low on resources and stop restoring the rest of your tabs to save you precious memory. You can always click to restore them if you'd like to access them later.

 

 We’ve also introduced another memory-saving technique. Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn't busy with some other task, and use the free time to aggressively clean up old, unused memory. In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps. With Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.

 

 

We’ve also made changes to Chrome to improve power usage. A new setting introduced in June will auto-pause Flash content that's not central to a website. Our testing has shown that turning on this setting makes your battery last up to 15% longer depending on your operating system, so over the next few weeks we'll begin turning on this feature by default for all users. 

 

 This latest version of Chrome includes the most recent wave of performance updates, but there's much more in the works for upcoming versions of Chrome. So get ready for faster, even more powerful browsing!

 

TL:DR

10% Ram 

15% longer battery 

 

Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn't busy with some other task, and use the free time to aggressively clean up old, unused memory. In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps. With Gmail, for example, we can free up nearly a quarter of the memory used by the tab.

 

l auto-pause Flash content that's not central to a website. Our testing has shown that turning on this setting makes your battery last up to 15% longer depending on your operating system, so over the next few weeks we'll begin turning on this feature by default for all users. 

 

 

 

Win win for everyone.

less ram  (still better then Edge *cough*)

Less power

= MORE TABS !

[The Benjamins]

I usually have 20-50 tabs open so this will help a lot.

[Arty]

I usually have 20-50 tabs open so this will help a lot.

you should do comparisons to see if it does anything, and how much

( since they used gmail to test, thats probbly like a best case )

[SurvivorNVL]

This is good.  Now I can open 10% more tabs.  130 tabs it is!

[Fiskander]

yay for google chrome

[jos]

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/09/chrome-improvements-for-faster-and-more.html

 

TL:DR

10% Ram 

15% longer battery 

 

 

 

Win win for everyone.

less ram  (still better then Edge *cough*)

Less power

= MORE TABS !

It was available in beta for a long time

[Arty]

It was available in beta for a long time

yea, and im in Chrome Dev, its been there a lot longer,

Chrome dev is now on version 47.+

 

Avg User is on stable.

[GoldSrc]

While this is nice, I will go back to Chrome when they add a feature to load only the selected tab.

I hate when the damn thing loads all my tabs when I open it.

[Arty]

While this is nice, I will go back to Chrome when they add a feature to load only the selected tab.

I hate when the damn thing loads all my tabs when I open it.

That was chromes whole pitch.

Everything is ready and snappy. 

 

but yea i feel ya

[bcredeur97]

naaice. 

 

more battery life for laptop woohoo!

 

My laptop has 16GB (mac with soldered memory if you want to ask why...) of RAM though so idk if i care about RAM usage (yet)

[MrRavens]

Bout time.

[SeriousDad69]

I don't know how you spergs keep that many tabs open at once. I get angry if I hit more than eight and end up closing a bunch till I'm down to just the tabs I'm actively using. Bookmarks exist.

[trag1c]

This is good but I have enough RAM not to care at all.

[cesrai]

That's nice.

[ApolloEleven]

I'm only using 4GB DDR4 at the moment and Google Chrome eats up ~40% with only 5-10 tabs lmao.

[StandardToaster]

Finally. On my machine currently, I have 5 chrome WINDOWS open with 5-20 tabs each. RIP my 12gb RAM. Hopefully they can make a better improvement than just 10%. I mean 10% is a lot, but 20 would be great.