Google Chrome started as a pretty lightweight, snappy web browser. Over the years, it’s moved away from those core values and become a little bloated compared to some other browsers. It’s not awful, but if you frequent any tech sites or forums, you’ve probably seen some clever jokes about Chrome’s excessive RAM usage and the like.
Fortunately, Google recognizes that Chrome could perform a little better, so they’re been working on trimming up the browser’s resource usage for better performance and battery life. Today, Chrome is getting some new tweaks that address how the browser handles memory and Flash content.
For starters, Chrome will better handle previously closed tabs for when you relaunch the browser. The new process is supposed to be more efficient, which means less power drain and memory usage. Chrome will also handle idle tabs better, and if a tab is sitting in the background not doing anything, the browser will clean up old, unused memory until it’s called for again. This tweak reduced memory usage in Gmail by about a quarter of what it used to use. Complex websites should also benefit greatly from this.
Google is also curbing how much juice Flash content can draw by preventing non-essential things from automatically playing on a website. This should be fantastic for battery life, and hopefully it means you won’t have any mysterious auto-play ads that you’ll have to hunt down to turn off.
source: Chrome Blog
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