Chrome throttles tab CPU activities when backgrounded, but doesn't clear memory ...

spiffytech on Jan 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I no longer trust The Great Suspender

Chrome throttles tab CPU activities when backgrounded, but doesn't clear memory for the tab. For users like me who usually have 50-800 tabs open across all my browser windows, that really adds up. I also appreciate (err... appreciated) The Great Suspender because I didn't want all of those tabs active every time I opened a browser, so I'd have scores of tabs that never even got loaded, but were ready to go the moment I wanted to return to them.

shawnz on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

Chrome does discard the memory of tabs that haven't been used recently and Great Suspender can be configured to make use of that functionality.