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    Feb 05, 2024 4 minutes

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    Check the memory usage of your tabs

    Back in February 2023, Google finally addressed one of the biggest problems with Chrome: the browser’s excessive usage of system memory. A new ‘Memory saver’ feature, introduced in Chrome 110, stops the browser hogging RAM and slowing your PC, by automatically freeing up memory from inactive tabs.

    To round off the year, Chrome 119 (released in November) adds the useful ability to check how much memory individual tabs are using. This means you can close any that are consuming too much RAM and that risk crashing your browser – or entire PC.

    Simply hover your cursor over a tab and Chrome will display the ‘Memory usage’ in megabytes below the title and preview image of the web page (see

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