Google Chrome 89 limits RAM consumption on Mac

The Google Chrome browser may be the most used on the market, it has gradually become a system resource mankind.While Safari is now faster than Chrome, Google puts double bites to return and offers a significant improvement.Indeed, chromium developers made version 89 much smarter to use and free memory on macOS.

Google Chrome is more economical on macOS

According to a new article on the Google Chromium blog, Chrome developers have managed to reduce the memory imprint of inactive tabs on Mac up to 8%, just over 1 GB on certain systems with version 89 of the browser.The limitation of the tabs, which acts on the pages which are not currently displayed, would also have led to significant improvements by reducing the alarm clocks of JavaScript Timer.The background tabs no longer awaken the processor as often and preserve the battery life.According to the developers, since its introduction to Chrome 87 and its wider deployment in Chrome 88, the functionality has been responsible for an improvement of 65% of the Apple Energy Impact of Chrome for the background pages.Regarding the active tab in the foreground, Chrome is now recovering up to 100 MB per tab, or more than 20% on certain popular sites, removing memory of non -visible elements, such as the big images you have scrolledout of the screen.

The improvements highlighted strongly contrast with the recently reported independent measures which claimed to demonstrate that Google Chrome uses 10 times more RAM than Safari on MacOS 11 Big on.The interpretation of these measures has since been challenged, but separately Apple always affirms that Safari on "MacOS Big on" is "50% faster on average to load frequently visited websites than Chrome."Apple also claims that Safari can broadcast videos for an hour and a half more and allow users to normally normally navigate with one more hour compared to Chrome and Firefox.Google Chrome for Mac is a free download available directly from Google servers.Google Chrome for iOS is also free for iPhone and iPad on the App Store.