Google has recently announced a new update for its popular Chrome browsers. They claim it will help reduce the amount of RAM memory the browser uses when you access a JavaScript heavy website. This will lead to a better performance for users who like to have multiple websites open at the same time.
Chrome is considered one of the best browsers around. However, one downside to its performance it that it requires more RAM than other browsers in order to function that well. This has become a notorious features of Chrome, one that led many users with low-end PCs to avoid the browser.
A new update called Chrome 55 promises to address this issue by using an upgrade JavaScript engine. This will significantly reduce the memory requirement of the browser on websites that include a heavy use of JavaScript. According to the development team, their tests on various websites like New York Times, Reddit, YouTube have resulted in 50 per cent less RAM usage on average.
The only downside of the new update for Chrome is that will become available starting with December 6th. It will first become available on desktop platforms then gradually on other platforms such as phones and tablets. You can experience the update earlier if you’re willing to run the pre-release code on Chrome.
It’s important to know that you will only notice an improvement only if your computer has a low performance already so that the RAM used by Chrome matters. Otherwise, on a high-end PC with a lot of RAM, the amount of memory Chrome uses before and after the update won’t be noticeable.
The Chrome development team has promised even more improvements in the future. They are keen on reducing the load time for devices that have under 1GB of RAM. In the meantime, if you are using Chrome and suffer from low performance, we recommend having only one tab opened at a time. You can of course, open multiple sites without impacting performance as long they are not JavaScript heavy.
The new performance update for Chrome will most likely be useful to gamers, who are always trying to get as much performance as they can from their PCs. RAM has always been a very sought-over resource by many applications, games most of all.
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