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Improve the Memory Saver feature

One of the most useful additions to Chrome last year was the Memory Saver feature, which frees up RAM from inactive tabs to stop them hogging system resources and slowing the browser. Chrome 121, released earlier this month, improves Memory Saver by more accurately identifying which tabs to discard.

Unlike the similar Sleeping Tabs feature in Edge, which puts tabs to sleep when they’ve been idle for a certain length of time, Chrome doesn’t let you specify how long to wait before freeing up memory from inactive tabs. As we explained in Issue 663 (page 42), you set a time limit by enabling the hidden experiment Enable the multistate option for Memory Saver Mode, but this has yet to be

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