Free up Memory and Speed up Google Chrome

Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers currently, and its Unique selling proposition is its speed. But still, at times, depending upon how many tabs are open and kind of extensions installed, browsing on Chrome might feel like a lag. So, the best thing to do is to free up some memory by killing the process hogging the memory. The Google Chrome task manager does exactly that. It 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. This information can be used to exactly find out which component of the web browser is using most of the RAM. It also allows you to end process on any open tab without having to shutdown the browser.

Accessing Google Chrome Task Manager

1. While in Google Chrome, use the following keyboard shortcut: Shift+Esc.

2. The Task Manager will appear. Select the desired page that needs to be closed.

3. Click the End Process button.
While on the memory management on Google Chrome, you can check out memory usage by different web-browsers currently loaded in memory by opening a new Chrome tab and typing in about:memory and pressing Enter key.

Comments

Mega List of Windows 7 Drivers

W indows 7 has just been released all over the world and I am sure many of you are gearing up to upgrade the OS of your PC to Windows 7. One thing which comes to my mind immediately when I think of upgrading my OS, is about the compatible drivers.

Dash up Your WordPress Dashboard Interface

Do you have a multi-author blog ? Do you want to brand your WordPress dashboard with custom logo and unique interface? Then this post is for you only. In this article I am going to tell you how you can change the avatar of WordPress admin page with new style and add some cool features to it. Let’s start. Fluency WordPress Plugin Here is a WordPress plugin for you called Fluency with which you can customize your WordPress admin page according to your needs without any knowledge of PHP. Some top features of Fluency that I personally like are – Display your own custom logo at the top of the WP Menu once logged in : This is my favorite option, with this plugin you can also add your own logo on top of WordPress admin page. A good option if you’ve a multi author blog. Hot keys for menu/submenu access : Fluency provides you with features of hot keys with which you can easily open menu and submenu. Now, no need to take mouse to every menu, simply use the hot keys f...

All Seeing Eye Chrome Add-on Runs Text Searches of Your Entire Browser History

W e use our browsers daily and at a certain point, we might want to find that interesting website that we accessed a few months ago. But by using the default browser history is either too difficult or almost impossible to do that. That’s why this Chrome extension is so awesome. The All Seeing Eye add-on indexes all text in your Web history, letting you run text searches. All Seeing Eye indexes all of the text of every page you visit in Chrome and even captures a screenshot of each page you visit for a quick visual search of your Web history. The default Web history tells you only the URL and title of each Web page you have visited but with the Chrome extension All Seeing Eye, your Web history expands to include all of the text of every page you have visited along with screenshots. The moment after you install the All Seeing Eye from the Chrome Web Store, the extension starts indexing all of the text of every page you visit and capturs scre...

Techy freaks

Search This Blog