All About Chrome’s Memory Saver Feature

All About Chrome’s Memory Saver Feature

Chrome Memory Saver is a relatively new feature in Google Chrome designed to reduce the amount of RAM used by Chrome. It’s available on the Windows, macOS, and Chromebook versions of Chrome. This feature should be enabled by default.

How Memory Saver Works

Memory Saver works by recovering memory from background tabs that you aren’t using. Google says that with Memory Saver enabled, Chrome uses “up to 40% and 10GB less memory” by freeing up memory from background tabs that you aren’t using right now. Memory Saver prioritizes active tabs while deactivating background tabs that have been open for a while but have not been recently used. When you return to these background tabs, they will be instantly reloaded.

To make sure Google’s Memory Saver is  turned on type or copy and paste:
chrome://settings/performance  In the Chrom1 address bar and press Enter.

Under Memory Saver make sure the switch is turned “On”.

Here you can also add sites that you never want to be deactivated by clicking on “Add” next to “Always keep these sites active” and copying and pasting (or typing) in the website’s URL. For example https://thundercloud.net/infoave/new/.

Also, in the Performance section, you’ll see the “Energy Saver” option. Laptop users can use this to help save battery power when the laptop is running on battery power. As you can see above I have mine set to “turn on when my computer is unplugged”

And finally, here’s what Google has to say and some screenshots for you.

Chrome frees up memory to make browsing smoother

Memory Saver automatically frees up memory from tabs you haven’t used in a while. This gives active tabs and other apps more computer resources and keeps Chrome speedy. You can manage Memory Saver and which sites it frees up memory from in settings.

If you want to manage Memory Saver, open Settings and click Performance.
Open your tabs and browse as usual.

Let Memory Saver do the rest.