Chrome uses how much RAM?!

[ItsBlck]

Ok, so I was looking around on my old computer which has 4GB of ram using Windows 10 pro and I noticed on task manager when I literally had two empty tabs open on google chrome it uses like 600mb - 900mb of ram and I was like WTF?! I have no idea why this program uses so much ram but maybe you guys do so...? Anyways thanks for any responses!

[Theguywhobea]

Just Chrome things

[Anghammarad]

upper left corner of chrome, left click and a menu comes up, chose taskmanager on that, there you can see which task inside chrome uses how much ram.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Reasons I stopped using Chrome. It's a real memory hog, I'd probably have to move on from my standard of 8Gb if I kept using Chrome

[Danboy360]

For devices with 8GB + RAM, using Chrome is not an issue for day to day running and browsing etc, but for devices with only 4GB RAM, I'm tending to use Edge more and more.  It's a good browser, and I've noticed how much tidier it is for memory.  I don't know why, but extensions on Chrome seem to be as much of a culprit, as much as the tabs and their content themselves.

[ItsBlck]

4 minutes ago, Danboy360 said:

For devices with 8GB + RAM, using Chrome is not an issue for day to day running and browsing etc, but for devices with only 4GB RAM, I'm tending to use Edge more and more.  It's a good browser, and I've noticed how much tidier it is for memory.  I don't know why, but extensions on Chrome seem to be as much of a culprit, as much as the tabs and their content themselves.

oh, so the extension seem to be a problem as well then. We'll, its not as if I have 5 running all the time on this PC...

[Danboy360]

Just now, SimpleTechVids said:

oh, so the extension seem to be a problem as well then. We'll, its not as if I have 5 running all the time on this PC...

From what I've noticed - yes.  I did a test to see exactly how it was - first off was a completely clean Chrome with no extensions, and whilst not super high, was still more than Edge.  I then tested it with all of its extensions I normally run (5 or so) and this time the memory was even higher, I'd say an extra 30% on the basic Chrome usage.  

 

I am running a Surface Pro with 4GB RAM, so Chrome is a no go for me - Edge however, even with an extension or two seems to be perfect.

[ItsBlck]

11 minutes ago, Danboy360 said:

From what I've noticed - yes.  I did a test to see exactly how it was - first off was a completely clean Chrome with no extensions, and whilst not super high, was still more than Edge.  I then tested it with all of its extensions I normally run (5 or so) and this time the memory was even higher, I'd say an extra 30% on the basic Chrome usage.  

 

I am running a Surface Pro with 4GB RAM, so Chrome is a no go for me - Edge however, even with an extension or two seems to be perfect.

ok, thanks. But if it had a 30% increase with extensions let's say that uses 700mb total then chrome alone would use roughly 500mb! I still wonder why this is...

[Danboy360]

1 minute ago, SimpleTechVids said:

ok, thanks. But if it had a 30% increase with extensions let's say that uses 700mb total then chrome alone would use roughly 500mb! I still wonder why this is...

It's a good question, one I've been trying to understand myself.  I don't know whether it's just plain memory leak on their behalf or not, but I've also seen that the new Firefox is also much better in memory consumption.

[Anghammarad]

2 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Reasons I stopped using Chrome. It's a real memory hog, I'd probably have to move on from my standard of 8Gb if I kept using Chrome

Try out Iron. 

 

it is a chrome "clone" with a lot of "sending information to mama" removed. 

 

And all the chrome plugins work as well.

 

Currently I got this forum, facebook, youtube and a flash browser game running, Iron uses around 1.2 gigs of ram. Flash and Facebook use nearly half of that. 

 

The times I used Firefox it always felt more sluggish and even used more ram. So with Iron I'm quite happy.

 

In regard of the memory usage, for example when you scroll down a timeline in Facebook with lots of images, the facebook tab alone can hog way over 1 gig of ram, due to holding all the images loaded. To free that memory, just reload the page.

[ItsBlck]

3 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Try out Iron. 

 

it is a chrome "clone" with a lot of "sending information to mama" removed. 

 

And all the chrome plugins work as well.

 

Currently I got this forum, facebook, youtube and a flash browser game running, Iron uses around 1.2 gigs of ram. Flash and Facebook use nearly half of that. 

 

The times I used Firefox it always felt more sluggish and even used more ram. So with Iron I'm quite happy.

 

In regard of the memory usage, for example when you scroll down a timeline in Facebook with lots of images, the facebook tab alone can hog way over 1 gig of ram, due to holding all the images loaded. To free that memory, just reload the page.

Ok, thanks. I'll stay with chrome as I don't use that PC anymore but now I finally understand why it uses so much. 

[Anghammarad]

here to finish up a fresh made screenshot from my machine: 

 

 

Iron has freshly been started. You see it uses about ~360 megs of ram just on the home screen. From that nearly half of it is due to 3 plugins I use, AdBlock, uBlock and Disconnect. 

 

But those I use for security reasons and won't get rid of.

[ItsBlck]

Yeah, using chrome with only LTT forums up - one window uses as much as 525mb of ram (includes 7 extensions which I use sometimes). Opening chrome fresh uses about 400mb RAM. There is a difference but I assume if I remove most extensions except Adblock plus and 2 others I would save another 50-100mb of ram.

[Anghammarad]

1 minute ago, SimpleTechVids said:

Yeah, using chrome with only LTT forums up - one window uses as much as 525mb of ram (includes 7 extensions which I use sometimes). Opening chrome fresh uses about 400mb RAM. There is a difference but I assume if I remove most extensions except Adblock plus and 2 others I would save another 50-100mb of ram.

Get rid of AdBlock plus, since it has made some income from advertisers, it does far less than it had.