Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?

Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by vageli on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:41PM (#16561225)

As a person who also has way too manu tabs open at all times, I've had success with the great suspender [0]. It "suspends" pages after a timeout so they use less memory.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by LordDragonfang on Sunday March 11, 2018 @04:56AM (#16562250)

The current version also has a bug where it will create so many cookies on google-owned domains that it will exceed the header limit and cause a 500 response. The dev refuses to fix it until he implements a feature to make suspended tabs persist across updates, which is apparently slow going.

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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by imhoguy on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:30AM (#16562315)

Well, it is opensource so anyone can fix it for fun or profit: https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender

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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday March 11, 2018 @04:52AM (#16562243)

Seconded. I reliably have a few hundred tabs open, and GS keeps them all manageable.

It’s not always happy if Chrome crashes or I have to do a cold reboot, but mostly it keeps Chrome’s gluttony under control.

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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? by EGreg on Sunday March 11, 2018 @08:06AM (#16562678)

At this point why not just use something like OneTab? It also syncs the tabs across many computers.

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