On desktop PCs, Google Chrome is notoriously a RAM and CPU hog. Here are some simple measures you can take to optimize performance and efficiency.

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The other day, I found myself staring at my laptop screen, frustrated yet again as Chrome guzzled up my RAM like it was an all-you-can-eat buffet. My browser was lagging, my videos were stuttering, ...

Do you want to know how to reduce Chrome memory usage? We all know that the Chrome browser has a high memory usage allowing it to run smoothly. You can however reduce memory usage by closing unused ...

Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver. Modern browsers eat up a lot of memory, and while that’s not a problem if you have 32GB of RAM ...

Google’s Chrome browser is infamous for consuming a lot of RAM. While recent updates have attempted to solve this problem from a technical side, a new feature may put more of the management in the ...

Google's Chrome browser has often been criticized for being a system resource hog, which has led Chromium developers to provide ways to free up memory and keep things running smoothly when users have ...

Every so often, Google touts improvements it has made to memory management within its popular Chrome browser, which claims the lion's share of the browser market. This is another one of those times.

In June, Microsoft bragged that its new, Chromium-based Microsoft Edge could see a 27-percent drop in memory use in conjunction with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. Google said it would follow Edge’s ...

Chrome uses a hardware acceleration technology called the Graphics processing unit (GPU) to handle visual and graphic processing, and it also helps to show the web page correctly. When some users ...