Google has been focused on improving the Chrome and the consumption that this browser makes of resources. The recent news shows this, but soon there will be another news. Everything points to the possibility of controlling the memory that Chrome is consuming in a short time.
It is an intense work that Google has been doing to control resource and energy consumption in Chrome. This browser seems to be constantly having problems in this area, far from what it was in its early days, where it was very controlled and limited in this field.
A new code entry in the Chrome project (Chromium Gerrit) has now shown that news may be about to arrive. This browser will now show users the memory consumption of each tab, in order to make it easier to manage this element.
According to a new prototype on Gerrit, Chrome's hover cards *could soon show you how much memory a tab is using:https://t.co/ERwYdqZmwP
Something like this (mockup): pic.twitter.com/S5FywklioM
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From what is described, it will be enough for the user to move the mouse over each of the tabs to access that information. This will be below the name of the tab, next to the thumbnail of the page being visited, serving only as auxiliary information.
Google already has this information in Chrome, although not with simple and quick access. Users need to access the browser's task manager, where they can consult data and even delete tabs that are consuming too many resources.
There is also information that Google may soon bring more tools in this area. It will be simple to delete a tab or simply restart it directly in the tab, always based on the memory consumption information presented to the user.
These are going to be more tools that Google wants to give to help Chrome users. The recent addition to Control Memory and Energy Savings are already an important step and make this browser more restrained in terms of consumption and with even better and more efficient management.
