Chrome = Resource Hog

[ILFE]

Hi,

 

Does anyone know why Chrome uses so much memory? Is there a way to streamline it to where it will not do this? Or, is my only option to use another browser? 

 

[Murasaki]

What do you expect when you have 38 tabs processes open! 

[RollinLower]

you could try switching browsers but to be honest lots of tabs open = lots of RAM being eaten. 

that being said, chrome is one of the worst offenders in this regard

[ILFE]

1 minute ago, ModuleLFS said:

What do you expect when you have 38 tabs open! 

Those numbers are off, believe it or not. I only have about 17 windows open.

[ILFE]

Just now, RollinLower said:

that being said, chrome is one of the worst offenders in this regard

It certainly seems like it.

[yuh25]

Try looking at chromes task manager with Shift+Tab+Esc and see whats using it all, could just be an extension using most of it.

[ILFE]

6 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

What do you expect when you have 38 tabs open! 

It's showing 30 open now, and I am down to 9 tabs.

[Murasaki]

I haven't used Firefox or anything else for years so don't know what memory they use in comparison but I've never had an issue with it when I was with 8gigs of RAM, even less now with 16. If it bothers you that much you can use a different browser. 

[asus killer]

8 minutes ago, ILFE said:

Those numbers are off, believe it or not. I only have about 17 windows open.

you have 38 processes not 38 tabs open.

[ILFE]

Just now, ModuleLFS said:

If it bothers you that much you can use a different browser.

Don't get me wrong here. It isn't a major issue. It never even locks up or anything. (I too, run 16 gigs of RAM.) I was just curious if there was a way to make it use fewer resources. 

[ILFE]

3 minutes ago, asus killer said:

you have 38 processes not 38 tabs open.

Thanks. I didn't realize that at first. I went in and disabled addons extensions, to see if that helped. I guess some of those use more than I thought they would.

[ILFE]

It's all good, now. Thanks for the advice, regarding the extensions. Not all of the resources, I'm sure. But, it helped a great deal to disable them. 

[asus killer]

Just now, ILFE said:

Thanks. I didn't realize that at first. I went in and disabled add ons, to see if that helped. I guess some of those use more than I thought they would.

yes, things like extensions can have an impact, but also some sites are heavier than others. You could have a problem or not, with browsers it's not easy to know. I guess installing clean firefox and open the same tabs and compare, maybe can give an idea. But Chrome loves is ram

[ILFE]

7 minutes ago, ModuleLFS said:

If it bothers you that much you can use a different browser. 

Ya know, the more I think about this, the more I realize that was absolutely useless advice.

 

If someone asks for assistance such as this, I realize it is easy to just tell them to use a different browser. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to sort that out. But, wouldn't it be a hell of a lot more beneficial to offer a solution to the issue at hand, than to just suggest they walk away from it completely?

 

Personally, I like Chrome okay. I would like to keep using it, which is why I asked for advice here today. 

[ILFE]

5 minutes ago, asus killer said:

Chrome loves is ram

It does seem rather fond of it, for sure.

 

Thanks.