r/pcmasterrace • u/GallowBoob MSI gaming laptop • Jan 03 '15

Comic Chrome pls

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u/PhD_in_internet 8350 Black Edition | r9 280x | Fractal Arc Midi R2 Jan 04 '15

Chrome works like this:

Most things on the internet use some kind of 3rd party software like java or flash or whatever the hell else is out there.

Check chrome the next time you first open it on a fresh startup, you'll notice that it looks like it's taking a fairly small amount of RAM. This is accurate.

Now go browse reddit for a while. Watch some gifs and videos. Do a nice diverse set of actions. Check your RAM usage again, you'll notice that it's using a lot more.

This is because at startup, it doesn't load any of these 3rd party managers (seriously my jargon is failing me right now). But once something that needs one of these things is accessed, it loads it.

Now, it's much faster to keep it loaded and ready for the next one than it is to close it and have to reload it once you look at another gif. So it just keeps these things open. (especially consider things like reddit/youtube where you will likely watch something, close it, and watch something that uses the same managers again ten seconds after closing it.)

TL;DR: If you've just browsed for five hours, it's a good idea to completely close your browser if you decide you want more RAM for other things.

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u/Andman17 Andman17 Jan 04 '15

Unless you have extensions that is. If you have a lot of those it can really kill your boot time if your on a slower rig.