What are those circles on your chrome tabs?
Some of the tabs on your Chrome browser may have circles around the tab’s icon, which is smaller and slightly faded. What’s that all about?
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Some of the tabs on your Chrome browser may have circles around the tab’s icon, which is smaller and slightly faded. What’s that all about?
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge The issue You may have noticed recently that of the tabs on your Chrome browser have circles around the tab's icon and that the icon itself is smaller and slightly faded. What's that all about — and can I change them back? You can see how much memory has been freed up by hovering your cursor over the inactive tab. Quick fix Chrome's recent Memory Saver feature, according to Google, "automatically frees up memory from tabs you haven't used in a while." The circled tab icons indicate which tabs are currently inactive. To ma...
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