Improve performance by changing Google Chrome's "Memory Saver" settings

This time, we will show you how to improve performance by changing Google Chrome's "Memory Saver" settings.

When you use Google Chrome for a long time, does your PC's overall performance become slow (heavy)?

For example, if you are watching a video on YouTube or similar and have many other tabs open while browsing web pages, the response of all operations may become slow.

Google Chrome's "Memory Saver"

What is Memory Saver?

By enabling "Memory Saver", memory for inactive tabs will be automatically released, allowing for smoother tab switching and reducing overall PC slowdown.

Inactive tabs (tabs that you haven't used for a while) will be disabled after a certain period of time to keep active tabs running smoothly.

This frees up memory for inactive tabs, saving your PC memory and preventing slowdowns.

Inactive tabs are not closed, but are only temporarily disabled and will become active again when you reopen them.

If your PC has a limited amount of memory, or if you watch a lot of videos, we recommend enabling "Memory Saver."

"Memory Saver" settings

1. Type the following command into the address bar of Google Chrome and press Enter:

chrome://settings/performance

2. "Memory Saver" will be displayed on the right side, and you can enable or disable it using the toggle ① in the image below.

② You can choose how to save memory.

When "Memory Saver" is enabled, switching between tabs in Google Chrome will be smoother, reducing slowdowns.

If you are using Windows 11 and your PC has less memory, such as 8GB, we recommend selecting "Maximum."

Generally, you can leave it at "Balanced (recommended)," but if your PC has a lot of memory and you have the space, you will get better performance by setting it to "Moderate" or disabling "Memory Saver." Note: Selecting "Maximum" may decrease the overall performance of Google Chrome.

Advantages and disadvantages of enabling Memory Saver

Benefit

By reducing the amount of memory used by Google Chrome and ensuring that your PC has enough memory available, you can prevent slowdowns caused by a lack of memory on your PC.

To put it simply, let's say your PC has 8GB of memory.

Let's say you have a lot of tabs open and Chrome is using 4GB of memory.

So the PC will have 4GB of available memory?

What if you have other apps open and they use 4.1GB of memory? You'll run out of memory.

When the available memory capacity is insufficient,swapThis causes the entire PC to run extremely slowly.

If Memory Saver is enabled at this time, Chrome will deactivate (temporarily disable) tabs that you are not currently using (if you haven't used them for a certain period of time), freeing up the memory space they were using.

For example, if 500MB is freed up, your PC will have 4.5GB of available memory, preventing slowdowns due to insufficient memory.

Demerit

We mentioned above that when Memory Saver is enabled, Chrome will deactivate tabs that you are not currently using.

However, inactive tabs are temporarily disabled and will automatically reload the page content when accessed again.

For example, say you have page A open in one tab, and after browsing about halfway through, you view page B in another tab.

At this time, the memory saver function is activated and the tab with page A open is deactivated.

You finish viewing page B and go to continue viewing page A, but page A reloads and you are sent back to the top of the page.

It's very inconvenient to be sent back to the top of the page when you want to continue reading.

As you can see, memory savers have their disadvantages, so please set them according to your environment.

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