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How to Reduce Google Chrome's Memory and CPU Usage

I used Chrome for years and stopped using it a couple of years ago. For me, it wasn't the stupid amount of memory it used, but how much processor. On my old 2015 MBP, if I even looked at the Chrome icon, the processor fan would start running like a little jet engine taking off.
 
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now i see it said:
I don’t really understand the logic behind having 10 (or 100) browser tabs active in the background. Seems unnecessary and sloppy to me.
A few tabs, OK, but a dozen or more?
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Right now I have 60 tabs across 5 windows open in Safari and another window in Chrome with 30 tabs. Some of the windows are for different projects that I'm actively researching but most of the tabs are just stuff I hadn't had time to get to yet. People will send me links through different channels and I usually just open them in a new tab and then I'll read them or watch them whenever I find the time.
 
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krspkbl said:
Another tip: You don't need to use Chrome. If you really need to use a Chromium browser for whatever reason then at least use Edge. If you care about the future of the internet and your privacy then you should not be using Chromium at all and that means using Safari (if you don't care about Privacy) or Firefox (If you do care about Privacy) . If anything happens to Firefox or Safari then Google will basically own the internet.
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The future of the internet.. own the internet... come on.. Chrome is still better then Edge, wouldn't use that crap in a million years. MS imo is far worse then Google, can't escape their crapware they install everywhere on Windows. Chrome has been a great browser and continues to be, I even use it on my iPhone 14 ProMax. It works very well and my machine has more then enough memory to handle the few hundred megs of memory it needs. When you think about it, you spend 75-90% of your day in a browser, so using a little bit of that massive amount of memory you have isn't a big deal.
 
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First off, use Brave or FireFox with uBO, CookieAutoDelete, and ClearURLs. Secondly, get a Mac with 64 or 96GB RAM like me and you'll never even have to consider this article.
 
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i have no particular allegiance to any of the browers, but i just tried a quick, non-scientific test of opening a single youtube tab on various browsers and counted up how many obvious memory processes i could spot in activity monitor. chrome and safari both seemed to take up ~900mb, while firefox skyrocketed to around 1.4gb.

i don't know if there's some nuance that i'm missing, but the theme seems to be they're all memory hogs?
 
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a whole article while you could just summarise it: delete chrome. The sole reason why Chrome has such marketshare cause it was always installed unintentionally or hidden in options with installation of software. Disgusting.
 
I strongly suggest everybody who hasn't tried it before or in a while to give Firefox another shot! Aside from the usual things like their focus on privacy and stuff like that I just really love for how customizable it is. I like it even more in macOS than I do in Windows.
 
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mongobongo said:
Right now I have 60 tabs across 5 windows open in Safari and another window in Chrome with 30 tabs. Some of the windows are for different projects that I'm actively researching but most of the tabs are just stuff I hadn't had time to get to yet. People will send me links through different channels and I usually just open them in a new tab and then I'll read them or watch them whenever I find the time.
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How do you count the number of tabs open in Safari?
 
Is iCab still around? Oh yeah I just looked and it is, neat. iCab (icab.de) was my main browser for years, during the early years, until Safari emerged. These days it's 100% Safari and for my personal non-work-related Mac I have Lockdown (lockdownprivacy.com) installed (and on my phone as well) and I have block all cookies on all the time (unless I'm temporarily signing into the three or four web sites I need to log into occasionally), same with my phone. I have Firefox installed in case something doesn't open in Safari but it has cookies blocked, etc... as well. I've been Google-free for a few years now: fully abandoned my gmail and google docs (I use Pages and iCloud now) and use (duck.com) as a search engine or if that's not enough I'll once in a while use Startpage (startpage.com) for a search. I'm not a huge user or websites that require logins. I've apparently had a macrumors account since 2008 though, time flies...
 
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As has been said, simply uninstall the spyware ridden thing.
Then start blocking all of Google's IP addresses.
I have google.com blocked and only unblock it when a site uses one of those stupid [redacted] capcha things.
You can exist on the internet without Google spying on you 24/7.
 
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krspkbl said:
Another tip: You don't need to use Chrome. If you really need to use a Chromium browser for whatever reason then at least use Edge. If you care about the future of the internet and your privacy then you should not be using Chromium at all and that means using Safari (if you don't care about Privacy) or Firefox (If you do care about Privacy) . If anything happens to Firefox or Safari then Google will basically own the internet.
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I agree with the general thrust, but how is Safari less private than Firefox? I don‘t keep up with Firefox minutae so I’m curious what they do better than Safari.
 
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