There is a flag in chrome where you can force it to unload tabs. I haven't needed it on my (newer) computer recently, but I used it on my old laptop. The downsi

There is a flag in chrome where you can force it to unload tabs. I haven't needed it on my (newer) computer recently, but I used it on my old laptop. The downside is that if a tab unloads, you'll need to refresh it to open it again, possibly losing state. But it significantly reduces memory footprint. I think it was this that I was using: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discar... But I'm pretty sure they've rolled this into mainline now. You can go to chrome://discards/ to see the status of your tabs.