Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
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Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
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Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#2My own tests confirm these numbers.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#3Typo in the title of the article linked : It's not Chome, it's Chrome.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#4Also, if you are not yet using 64-bit Chrome, you really should. It is more stable and avoids internal "out of memory" errors individual tabs can sometimes return. Not the default Chrome for some reason!
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#5Anyone have any perspective as to whether these gains will flow to
Electron?
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#6[edit: removing comment as people made it unreadable anyway.]
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#7does this help the battery life in any way?
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#8Anyone have any perspective as to whether these gains will flow to Electron?
If they didn't, then that would mean development on Electron had stopped. Or that the Electron team needs to remove these features in their fork, and considering how much grief Electron's RAM usage gets, I don't see that happening.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#9Also, if you are not yet using 64-bit Chrome, you really should. It is more stable and avoids internal "out of memory" errors individual tabs can sometimes return. Not the default Chrome for some reason!
It's the default on Mac, not sure on windows.
Re: Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
#10They mentioned that weather.com crashed their website. Their website is always extremely slow for me as well. It's ridiculous how poorly designed their website can be for such a simple service.