Google Chrome might be one of the fastest web browsers, but it also hogs a lot of RAM when you open lots of tabs in it. Thus, opening lots of tabs in Chrome can slow down the browser quite a bit. It is a bloated browser that utilizes more RAM than many of the alternatives. So Chrome is not ideal for lower specification laptops and desktops. Google announced the Chrome 68 beta on the Chromium Blog, which is a more system resource efficient version of the browser. That is largely due to Chrome 68’s new Page Lifecycle API which enhances system resource optimization. That API enables the browser to pause inactive page tabs and then restart them when needed. Thus, Chrome can discard inactive pages to reduce tab RAM consumption. A Google engineer stated: Mozilla also plans to reduce Firefox’s system resource utilization. Mozilla has established Project Fission to minimize Firefox’s RAM utilization. Fission MemShrink is a big aspect of Project Fission that Mozilla hopes will cut its flagship browser’s RAM usage by at least seven MB. This newsletter page provides further details for Fission MemShrink. So both Google and Mozilla are refining their browsers to enhance their system resource efficiency. Chrome might become a much more system resource efficient browser with the Page Lifecycle API. You can add Chrome 68 to Windows, macOS and Linux platforms from this webpage.
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