How to Save RAM on Google Chrome With the Memory Saver Feature

Get started on Google Chrome version 108Google has officially presented the Memory Saver feature for their flagship browser, where with this feature, it is reported that RAM usage will be minimized by temporarily disabling inactive tabs.

Even though this feature is old, Microsoft is still testing at least up to versions of Google Chrome 110 and 111, where starting from the latest version (namely version 111), the Memory Saver feature is finally available for users to use, and if you are curious about how the feature it works and how to save RAM on Google Chrome using this feature, here WinPoin summarizes details and short steps on How to Save RAM on Google Chrome 111.

Step 1. To activate Memory Saver, make sure you are using Google Chrome version 111 or later.

Step 2. Next, on the Google Chrome Settings page, please select an option performance > and then activate the section Memory Saver.

Also, as a side note, if you want to exclude a site from the Memory Saver feature, you can add that site to the exclusion list by pressing the button. add.

How Does This Feature Work?

After you activate this feature, if you don’t use the tab that you open or the tab’s condition is in Idle position for 5 minutes, then the tab will be automatically saved or rather suspended until you open it again.

And as shown in the image above, if you open a tab that has been suspended or entered into a memory saver state, the omnibox will display information on how much RAM is being saved.

This feature is of course very useful for Google Chrome users who often open multiple tabs at once without having to sacrifice too much RAM resources. For those of you who have 16GB of RAM and above, of course this feature won’t really be felt, but it will be very useful if you use a device with limited RAM at 8GB or below.

So what do you think about this feature? comment below guys. Hope it is useful.