Everyone knows how resource-hungry Google Chrome is, and Microsoft has been taking advantage of this by promoting its Edge browser, which uses fewer resources than Google Chrome. Since Microsoft Edge has been a power saver for a long time and recently got updated to offer a better experience, Some time ago, Google was experimenting with the memory saving option for Google Chrome, and now the company has officially started rolling out the memory saver to Google Chrome.
Besides the Memory Saver option, Google Chrome also built some tools that give more memory-saving capabilities, including the option to disable control. This will further push Google Chrome to save more memory by sleeping the inactive tabs to save more resources. Since the memory saver makes the inactive tabs go to sleep, sometimes it becomes important that some tabs don’t go to sleep because the website might prompt an inactive session, and users must re-login or start a new session.
Google Chrome Memory Saver. It will reduce memory usage by 30%.
Two months ago, Google started rolling out the Memory Saver option, and it works across all major platforms, including Windows, Mac, Chrome, and Linux. This helps turn tabs more smoothly by freezing the inactive tabs, and Google claims to give a 30% boost in efficiency with their browser. Additionally, an energy-saving mode kicks in when your device’s battery drops to 20%, disables all smooth scrolling and website animation and reduces video frames to save battery. However, you can tweak the confirmation. Check here to learn how to enable and disable Google Chrome Memory Saver and Battery Saver on your device.
Google Support page outline, Some settings and activities on your computer may be preventing tabs from being excluded from this feature, which includes active audio or video (playback or calls). Screenshare, Page notifications, active downloads, partially filled-out forms, and connected devices (USB or Bluetooth).
How to enable Google Chrome’s Memory Discard Control
To prevent things from happening, Google is now making discard control for the Memory Saver. This feature is not rolled out to the stable version as an option for Google Chrome. Users need to enable this from the Chrome Flags, for which you can follow the instructions below. To use this feature, ensure that you have updated your Chrome to the latest version of Google Chrome.
- Visit/Open Chrome://Flags on Google Chrome.
- After that, search for Configure Discard Time for Memory Saver, or you can directly visit Chrome: //flags high-efficiency-mode-time-before-discard
- After that, use the drop-down menu to enable the option for your browser.
- Restart Google Chrome to save this on Google Chrome.
Google said this would help users save resources by up to 40% and save up to 10 GB of memory, which users can take advantage of further. This works identically to Microsoft Edge’s sleeping tabs in nature. This feature will be very useful when it finishes rolling out to the stable version of Google Chrome, especially for those who open a lot of Google Chrome tabs.
To take this further, Microsoft has recently introduced the Microsoft Edge Workspace, which stores the separate Edge with tabs stored online, and when users want, they can open the specific workspace. This will help keep the browser clean and free and use fewer resources to store all the tabs in the browser. However, the Discard control for the Memory control will give users an option and let them know that these tabs are important, and this specific tab doesn’t mean to be asleep if it becomes inactive for some time.
This feature will help Google offer a smooth experience for the website in an active browser. At the same time, users can continue working on other software. Don’t worry about the sleeping tab; when you reopen that website, the Sleep tab will automatically reload when needed, and this will become available with a future update to Google Chrome. To indicate that the tab has been put to sleep, Google Chrome is also adding the animation for the tabs being slept by dimming the animation for inactive tabs.