Google Chrome launches new feature to help you easily monitor memory consumption

News on October 16th, Google Chrome has been criticized recently for its high memory usage, especially on Windows On 11 or 10 systems. However, not all the blame can be placed on Google, as some sites themselves are consuming system resources. However, now Google Chrome is rolling out a new feature that will help users track resource consumption more easily.

Although users can now use Google Chrome’s Task Manager (Chrome Task Manager) to monitor the memory usage of tabs and extensions, but Google wants to make this process easier. Google is currently testing a new feature in a beta version of Google Chrome (Chrome Canary), when users hover the mouse over an open tab, they can instantly see the amount of memory used by that tab.

Of course, this new tab feature is not as powerful as the built-in task manager, and it does not provide detailed information about running processes, tabs, and extensions. Users can only check the performance of Google Chrome tabs by hovering the mouse over the tabs and manually close the resource-intensive tabs.

If users haven't seen this feature yet, they can go to Chrome://flags, enable "Memory usage on hover", and then restart the browser.

Additionally, Google provides other tools to monitor performance. For example, Google Chrome DevTool’s performance monitor monitor) is a more comprehensive way to monitor memory usage as well as other key metrics such as CPU, FPS, and DOM at a high level.

It should be noted that Google has been working on improving the performance of the Chrome browser. Last year, they rolled out a big update that reduced the browser's memory usage by 40% and improved battery life when the device's battery was below 20%.

Memory Saver is now integrated into Google Chrome’s new hover card feature, automatically freeing up memory on inactive tabs so that more resources can be used for active tabs and processes.

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