Chrome 89 promises less memory greed and a cooler, quieter Mac
Chris Davies - Mar 12, 2021, 8:15am CST
Google claims to have tamed Chrome’s memory-hungry ways, with the Chrome M89 release of the browser reportedly making big cuts when it comes to system demands. Long a topic of frustration, Chrome’s hunger for RAM – as well as other Windows, Mac, and Android resources – has also long been a focus for Google’s Chromium engine team, and this time they say they’ve made significant improvements.
In Windows, for example, Chrome 89 is showing up to 22-percent memory savings in the browser process. That’s not all, either: the Chromium team claims it can also save 8-percent in the renderer, and 3-percent in the GPU.