How to fix the Google Chrome memory leak issue

[BrianGrug]

1. Go to chrome://flags/
2. Disable the following
3. Automatic tab discarding
4. GPU rasterization
5. Fast tab/window close
6. Experimental QUIC protocol
7. And set Number of raster threads to 4

I didn't find this, can't remember where I did though. This isn't a 100% fix but I went from ~85% memory usage to about ~69%-75% memory usage (Using 8gb of ram)

 

[Ally]

Alas, running 20 tabs at a minimum constantly, and applying this workaround, doesn't help my memory issue on Chrome.

Chrome is largely inefficient at managing memory & CPU in general, which is the sacrifice for it being one of the fastest browsers and running each tab in literally a separate process - something which makes recovery incredibly easy. Ideally we wouldn't be running with Chrome; browsers like Firefox used to be far better (but now are just as bad).

Thanks though.

 

[BrianGrug]

Alas, running 20 tabs at a minimum constantly, and applying this workaround, doesn't help my memory issue on Chrome.

Chrome is largely inefficient at managing memory & CPU in general, which is the sacrifice for it being one of the fastest browsers and running each tab in literally a separate process - something which makes recovery incredibly easy. Ideally we wouldn't be running with Chrome; browsers like Firefox used to be far better (but now are just as bad).

Thanks though.

No problem, just hoping it helps some people because it's getting out of hand at this point

 

[Kuchy]

I personally haven't experienced an issue with this but thanks for sharing it!

 

[Ghast]

Or just use firefox/opera... Did you know Opera had built-in WhatsApp o.0