Google has released Chrome 45 for desktop, which is now available to download on PC, Mac, and Linux. The biggest change in this update is improved RAM management, which reduces the memory usage of idle tabs in the background.
Chrome can now check on tabs in the background and can tell if there is no activity on them for a while. It will then aggressively clear unused memory to reduce the memory footprint of those tabs. Google claims it can free up about 10% memory on an average and as much as a quarter for sites like Gmail.
Chrome will also intelligently restore your tabs upon relaunch, if you use that feature. The tabs are restored based on when they were accessed and older tabs are not restored until you click on them to save memory, especially on low memory machines.
As we wrote about before, Chrome will now also not load non-essential Flash content on websites, which should save up to 15% battery on laptops.
Chrome 45 is now available to download and if you have it installed has probably updated itself by now.
You meant to say Opera WAS the best, until they joined the evil WebKit team. I'm still using Opera 11.64 for my mobile javascript development. For the guy asking what RAM is: RAM is how much memory you have in your computer. And since that i...
Same like mine but i don't really need to watch my RAM as much after i upgrade to Windows 10, not sure if there's anything to do with it but now i have 25 tabs open and about 50% of my ram used. So it's not too bad :P
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