While the Chrome browser is extremely popular, it has gained something of a reputation. What hippos are to little plastic balls, Chrome is to memory: hungry, hungry.
Chrome 45, released earlier this week, should make Google’s browser a little lighter. The company described some improvements yesterday that should reduce the browser’s footprint.
Perhaps the most significant change for tab hoarders such as myself is new behavior when reloading all your tabs when you first launch the browser. Chrome 45 does a couple of things differently. First, it loads the tabs from most to least recently used. This should mean that the tabs you’re most interested in and want to use first will be the first to load. Second, if your system is low on memory, it will stop restoring tabs in the background. Clicking the tab to view it will, of course, load it, but otherwise it’ll remain dormant.
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