Free Computer Memory In Google Chrome

The Google Chrome task manager gives the user detailed information about the web browser’s memory consumption. The computer memory usage of the browser’s core, individual tabs, extensions and plugins are displayed in the task manager. The information displayed in the Chrome task manager can be used to exactly find out which component of the web browser is using most of the RAM.
The Chrome developers have also added a purge memory button to the task manager that is disabled by default. This button can be used to free up computer memory allocated by the Internet browser. It works in this regard like other tools that free computer memory.
Firefox users can for instance install the Memory Fox add-on to free computer memory while Windows users the computer memory optimizer Minimem.


The purge memory button becomes only available if the Chrome web browser is stared with the startup parameter –purge-memory-button.
The easiest way to do that in Windows is to right-click the Google Chrome shortcut to display the context menu. Select properties from the available choices and locate the Target field in the Shortcut tab. Append –purge-memory-button at the end of that line so that the command to execute Google Chrome looks similar to this:
C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –purge-memory-button
It is necessary to use “” to mark the path if the path to Google Chrome contains spaces.
The Google Chrome task manager can be started with the keyboard shortcut Shift Esc. The purge memory button should be active in the task manager if the startup parameter has been added correctly.