Viewing websites in Chrome should now use 10% less memory on average

Schoen said that Google will begin switching this feature on by default for all users in the coming weeks. With Gmail, for example, you can now free up almost a quarter of the memory used by the tab. With Chrome 45, all that changes as the browser will now be proactive about how it uses your computer’s resources.

Google says the approach will reduce “website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps”. This simply prevents the loading of tabs in the browser but keeps them listed in the browser’s tab bar so that they can be loaded on-demand by the user. Despite it’s huge popularity, countless features and the fact that it’s available to a wide range of devices, Google’s browser is know for having a poor performance including over usage of battery and memory resources. Today the company rolled out a new version of Chrome with further improvements oriented around performance, and they promise to make life easier for laptop warriors who regularly find themselves with dozens of open tabs (ahem).

Another change is the addition of a setting that will auto pause flash content that’s not central to the website, meaning no more auto-playing flash ads for those of you without AdBlock.

If the computer has plenty of free memory, it does not really matter if Chrome uses a lot, but if the machine is always low on memory, it will impact the performance of the overall system. However, slowly but gradually, Chrome by focussing on web page rendering speed and security features managed to woo users.

The improved tabbed management is something that is likely to prove beneficial to many Chrome users. Tabs are restored from most to least recently viewed, so you get to see the most important tabs faster.

Chrome started out as one of the least memory hungry browsers on the market, but over time, it developed a bit more of an appetite for RAM.