Our of curiosity - how many tabs do you have open? I have many tabs open, and did notice high memory usage. I'll reference my comment elsewhere here - tl;dr -

Our of curiosity - how many tabs do you have open? I have many tabs open, and did notice high memory usage. I'll reference my comment elsewhere here - tl;dr - they/we aggressively throttle background tasks now: > Chrome recently introduced some changes to background tabs (to a bit of grumbling from sites that wanted to use background resources/service workers): > https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/background.. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/background.... > And also - they're aggressively throttling background tabs: > http://blog.strml.net/2017/01/chrome-56-now-aggressively-thr.. http://blog.strml.net/2017/01/chrome-56-now-aggressively-thr.... > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13471543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13471543 > I'm on Chrome Canary - and there's been noticeable improvements in memory/responsive wise for a few months now. > I have around 320+ tabs open, spread over 2 Chrome profiles (around 160 per profile).