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Wow. My normal session now leaves me with around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. Gmail is using less than 1GB again. I might even disable

by ikeboy 10y ago

Wow. My normal session now leaves me with around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. Gmail is using less than 1GB again. I might even disable The Great Suspender, and stop killing tabs that use up lots of memory. Whoever worked on this, you deserve a raise. QOL improvements for so many people.

bogomipz 10y ago
What is The Great Suspender?
- MetaMonk 10y ago
  Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.
  - minot 10y ago
    (To add to the description, from their github readme) > "The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender
  - bogomipz 10y ago
    Ah Ok I thought it might be an OS utility. Thanks for the tip. I also highly recommend session buddy for excessive tab folks. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...
    - wheelerwj 10y ago
      chrome already has this behavior built in, start where I left off under settings. Is this different?
      - ahmedfromtunis 10y ago
        Yep. You can save named sessions so that you can go back in time as needed.
        bogomipz 10y ago
        Indeed. Chrome losing tabs after a crash and subsequent session restore is what led me to Session Buddy.
      - mkl 10y ago
        Chrome's session restore silently loses tabs when you have a lot open. It is completely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes a window will come back with half the tabs missing, which is obvious, but when it's only a couple missing, it's much harder to even know. Also, Session Buddy lets you export sessions to back them up and move them between computers, etc.
        rrdharan 10y ago
        If a tab goes missing and you can't tell, did it really matter?
      - deleted 10y ago
        [deleted]
  - somecallitblues 10y ago
    But then you miss out on the new chance at life http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser-window-23-tabs-open-p-54705 http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser...
    - notatoad 10y ago
      23? is that a lot? that's about normal for me, and i didn't think i was too bad. my office mate usually has a couple hundred tabs open.
      - jholman 10y ago
        Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's the problem.
        majewsky 10y ago
        Meanwhile, I feel like a compulsive hoarder when there are more than 10 tabs open. :)
- skrowl 10y ago
  It's basically like Bartab Plus for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ ) but for Chrome
tooFastFuckYou 10y ago
A goddamned BROWSER takes 8 GB of memory? That is a DISGRACE.
dexwiz 10y ago
Are you using Classic Gmail or Google Inbox?
- ikeboy 10y ago
  Classic. Can't handle inbox on a computer, only in the app.
- kyriakos 10y ago
  Google inbox web app is painfully slow for me
  - cschmittiey 10y ago
    Yep, me too, across all browsers. Really wish they'd streamline it a bit.
  - stekern 10y ago
    I've been using the cross-platform, open-source WMail [1] for a couple of weeks, and I find that it offers a faster and more streamlined experience than using Inbox in Chrome. [1] http://thomas101.github.io/wmail/ http://thomas101.github.io/wmail/
wamatt 10y ago
For me the situation is perhaps not quite as clear cut. On the one hand I'm seeing nice improvements in the large memory hogging tabs. For example a typical reddit thread was reduced from 399 MB down to 295 MB. On the other hand, it appears all extensions now have a >50MB memory usage floor. For example, the Authy extension was using 5MB under Chrome 54. It's now using 55MB on Chrome 55. Similarly the simple archive.is button extension went from 5MB to 55MB. That's a lot of RAM for spartan functionality. For the record, I'm using the chrome://system/ page to compare before and after. That said, it may be possible the additional memory usage for extensions may be a reporting change as opposed to an actual memory increase. Unsure either way.
- ikeboy 10y ago
  Private versus shared memory from chrome://system. I suspect shared doesn't really matter. I'm using shift+esc task manager, and top to see overall system free ram.
  - wamatt 10y ago
    Good catch. All the quoted memory figures are for private memory. The shared memory figures in the session test (10 tabs and 15 extensions) were all at 0 in both Chrome 55 and 54.
    - ikeboy 10y ago
      Oh it's the other way around for me. Shared are around 50mb for each extension.
  - mdrzn 10y ago
    I updated Chrome after checking the RAM usage, same tabs opened as before, this is the change: Browser 324 MB private, 83 MB shared Browser 226 MB private, 67 MB shared
    - ikeboy 10y ago
      Note that often RAM usage goes up as the browser is running longer. A good test would wait the same amount of time after opening the browser to check.
renaudg 10y ago
I quite like OneTab instead of The Great Suspender, more predictable and really straightforward to use : https://www.one-tab.com/ https://www.one-tab.com/
- mercer 10y ago
  For those who use OneTab I can highly recommend setting a keyboard shortcut for 1) seeing your OneTab list (although that can also be a bookmark), and more importantly, 2) sending the current tab to OneTab. I had to rediscover how to do this, or OneTab changed in its behavior. You have to go to your extensions screen (Chrome), scroll way to the bottom, and set your shortcuts for extensions there. Just FYI, as setting extension shortcuts in general wasn't intuitive to me.
  - stygiansonic 10y ago
    Thanks for the info! I had no idea this functionality existed.
    - mercer 10y ago
      I used it way back when and the for about a year I thought the feature had been removed. Was very happy to rediscover it!
geon 10y ago
It is sad that I cant really tell if you are being sarcastic. Sure memory is cheap vs. developer time, but still.
- ansgri 10y ago
  Cannot imagine him being sarcastic: around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. 1-2gb only left is something that greatly lowers the quality of developer time.
pmlnr 10y ago
> Gmail is using less than 1GB again Geez. If that's something we need to be happy about, we're doomed.

by ikeboy 10y ago

bogomipz 10y ago

What is The Great Suspender?

MetaMonk 10y ago
Suspends tabs after a set period of disuse. Great for people who open a ton of tabs in Chrome.
- minot 10y ago
  (To add to the description, from their github readme) > "The Great Suspender" is a free and open-source Google Chrome extension for people who find that chrome is consuming too much system resource or suffer from frequent chrome crashing. Once installed and enabled, this extension will automatically suspend tabs that have not been used for a while, freeing up memory and cpu that the tab was consuming. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender https://github.com/deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender
- bogomipz 10y ago
  Ah Ok I thought it might be an OS utility. Thanks for the tip. I also highly recommend session buddy for excessive tab folks. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...
  - wheelerwj 10y ago
    chrome already has this behavior built in, start where I left off under settings. Is this different?
    - ahmedfromtunis 10y ago
      Yep. You can save named sessions so that you can go back in time as needed.
      - bogomipz 10y ago
        Indeed. Chrome losing tabs after a crash and subsequent session restore is what led me to Session Buddy.
    - mkl 10y ago
      Chrome's session restore silently loses tabs when you have a lot open. It is completely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes a window will come back with half the tabs missing, which is obvious, but when it's only a couple missing, it's much harder to even know. Also, Session Buddy lets you export sessions to back them up and move them between computers, etc.
      - rrdharan 10y ago
        If a tab goes missing and you can't tell, did it really matter?
    - deleted 10y ago
      [deleted]
- somecallitblues 10y ago
  But then you miss out on the new chance at life http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser-window-23-tabs-open-p-54705 http://www.theonion.com/article/accidentally-closing-browser...
  - notatoad 10y ago
    23? is that a lot? that's about normal for me, and i didn't think i was too bad. my office mate usually has a couple hundred tabs open.
    - jholman 10y ago
      Last time I restarted Firefox, I had over 350 tabs open. Which is ridiculous, of course, because I'm sure that I haven't looked at more than 100 of them today, but since that all fits into 1.2GB of memory (currently), what's the problem.
      - majewsky 10y ago
        Meanwhile, I feel like a compulsive hoarder when there are more than 10 tabs open. :)
skrowl 10y ago
It's basically like Bartab Plus for Firefox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ ) but for Chrome

tooFastFuckYou 10y ago

A goddamned BROWSER takes 8 GB of memory? That is a DISGRACE.

dexwiz 10y ago

Are you using Classic Gmail or Google Inbox?

ikeboy 10y ago
Classic. Can't handle inbox on a computer, only in the app.
kyriakos 10y ago
Google inbox web app is painfully slow for me
- cschmittiey 10y ago
  Yep, me too, across all browsers. Really wish they'd streamline it a bit.
- stekern 10y ago
  I've been using the cross-platform, open-source WMail [1] for a couple of weeks, and I find that it offers a faster and more streamlined experience than using Inbox in Chrome. [1] http://thomas101.github.io/wmail/ http://thomas101.github.io/wmail/

wamatt 10y ago

For me the situation is perhaps not quite as clear cut. On the one hand I'm seeing nice improvements in the large memory hogging tabs. For example a typical reddit thread was reduced from 399 MB down to 295 MB. On the other hand, it appears all extensions now have a >50MB memory usage floor. For example, the Authy extension was using 5MB under Chrome 54. It's now using 55MB on Chrome 55. Similarly the simple archive.is button extension went from 5MB to 55MB. That's a lot of RAM for spartan functionality. For the record, I'm using the chrome://system/ page to compare before and after. That said, it may be possible the additional memory usage for extensions may be a reporting change as opposed to an actual memory increase. Unsure either way.

ikeboy 10y ago
Private versus shared memory from chrome://system. I suspect shared doesn't really matter. I'm using shift+esc task manager, and top to see overall system free ram.
- wamatt 10y ago
  Good catch. All the quoted memory figures are for private memory. The shared memory figures in the session test (10 tabs and 15 extensions) were all at 0 in both Chrome 55 and 54.
  - ikeboy 10y ago
    Oh it's the other way around for me. Shared are around 50mb for each extension.
- mdrzn 10y ago
  I updated Chrome after checking the RAM usage, same tabs opened as before, this is the change: Browser 324 MB private, 83 MB shared Browser 226 MB private, 67 MB shared
  - ikeboy 10y ago
    Note that often RAM usage goes up as the browser is running longer. A good test would wait the same amount of time after opening the browser to check.

renaudg 10y ago

I quite like OneTab instead of The Great Suspender, more predictable and really straightforward to use : https://www.one-tab.com/ https://www.one-tab.com/

mercer 10y ago
For those who use OneTab I can highly recommend setting a keyboard shortcut for 1) seeing your OneTab list (although that can also be a bookmark), and more importantly, 2) sending the current tab to OneTab. I had to rediscover how to do this, or OneTab changed in its behavior. You have to go to your extensions screen (Chrome), scroll way to the bottom, and set your shortcuts for extensions there. Just FYI, as setting extension shortcuts in general wasn't intuitive to me.
- stygiansonic 10y ago
  Thanks for the info! I had no idea this functionality existed.
  - mercer 10y ago
    I used it way back when and the for about a year I thought the feature had been removed. Was very happy to rediscover it!

geon 10y ago

It is sad that I cant really tell if you are being sarcastic. Sure memory is cheap vs. developer time, but still.

ansgri 10y ago
Cannot imagine him being sarcastic: around 8gb free out of 16, compared to 1-2gb free previously. 1-2gb only left is something that greatly lowers the quality of developer time.

pmlnr 10y ago

> Gmail is using less than 1GB again Geez. If that's something we need to be happy about, we're doomed.