Originally Posted by
unmesh
If I understand what you are trying to do, hit Shift-Escape in Chrome and it will pop up a windows showing what each of your tabs is consuming. You can select a tab and click on the End Process button to close it.
As I type this, my Gmail tab is north of 1GB of memory, for example.
Why does Gmail take so much ? its mostly text
I just checked on my Chromebook and its 418meg for Gmail
It would be nice if they just loaded the first page or 2 of Gmail, no reason you need all of it on the spot , or at least give you the option.
Chrome browser is only 209 meg , which even seems high ,
I think they just throw in everything on every program ,, including the "kitchen sink" and do not have levels you can use , from Basic web browsing to full on production,
and since memory is "cheap" there is no reason to do "tight" coding anymore , when you think back to all you could do on a Mac SE box with a meg of memory,
Are there websites that have set-up "low resource" set-ups for popular browsers like Chrome , firefox , etc ?