Google Chrome’s new Memory Saver will try to fix the browser’s RAM woes

Chrome is infamous for being a memory hog, often eating up a larger percentage of the RAM on machines with less memory. The joke is that even if you have a laptop with 64GB RAM, it will never be enough to run Chrome. It’s been that way for years, but Google’s now finally doing something about it. The company on Thursday announced two new modes for Chrome – Memory Saver and Energy Saver – with the goal of optimising the browser for your device’s battery and system memory.

With Memory Saver on, Chrome frees up memory from inactive tabs. This gives active tabs and tabs on the foreground more memory to work with, thereby improving their performance.