Four Ways to Stop Chrome From Slowing Down Your Computer | WSJ

[@haraldkrull2549]

That animation is GOLD tho, can we please acknowledge that 😌😌🙏🏻

[@gavinthecrafter]

Don't forget the voice acting

[@JustinY.]

"4 Ways to stop Chrome from slowing down your computer" #1: Use another browser

[@DHIRAJJKUMARBittu]

New Edge browser is good option nowadays

[@longxiao9823]

Lol it’s saying this: how to stop cigarettes from ruining your lungs? #1: quit smoking

[@Pil0wL]

Oi havent seen you in a while

[@glipk]

Shut up. You are not funny

[@96DDR]

"How to increase your lifetime" #1: Don't die.

[@prajwalss1341]

Simple : Stop using it.

[@ayizeb9299]

Yeah that was tip #1.

[@anshuman3595]

but it will only improve by 5-10%.

[@campkira]

it is fast becuase it used a lot of ram...

[@ChristianMop]

Yess

[@fadoronaldo7217]

The dislikes are from the Google employees that used to see memes with us

[@MrDarren690]

If cutting down Chrome's appetite is a big concern (like if you're on a weak computer, 4GB RAM, etc.) you can also try the Chrome extension, The Great Suspender. Chrome actually already suspends tabs but sometimes it might not be as powerful as it should, so this extension solves that by putting the power into your hands.

[@YakhyaDABO]

Tab suspender such as the The Great Suspender, reduces Chrome's memory and GPU usage by suspending tabs that are not used.

[@Unbeatable0007]

Whoaa! Install one more extension!! That will surely slow down ur PC

[@LordAshura]

I've stopped using Chrome as it suffered from lags and heavy cpu/ram usage. I finally switched to Microsoft Edge and I gotta say the experience is much better.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

EDGE IS ALSO CHROMIUM BASED.ITS THE SAME AS GOOGLE CHROME.

[@PieManXD]

@@lazarusblackwell6988Just because Edge is chromium doesn’t mean it’s the same. Edge has more feature and is better then Chrome.

[@springbok4015]

Free the web, and move away from Chrome.

[@AferAlR]

Try to use Tab Suspender. What it does is they'd suspend the unused tabs that you have opened before so they won't consume any CPUs. Works like charm for me

[@aliali-ce3yf]

this feels like something i would see in elementary school - though not as good as "don't copy that floppy"

[@floydjohnson7888]

Imagine Joanna Stern interviewing Stewart Cheifet. The Software Publishers Association-"Don't copy that floppy"-was a sponsor of "Computer Chronicles"

[@LuckyBogoshi]

Yeah I did the switch a few months ago to Edge! Loving it! 😎

[@brucerottner7371]

I know this is an older thread, but I just wanted to say that I've been having problems with Chrome causing my fans to run almost constantly and slowing my (desktop) down considerably. After trying all the fixes recommended here and on other numerous websites, I finally did a reset of Chrome (which I had been hesitant to do as I was afraid I'd lose bookmarks, etc), and guess what? That totally fixed the issue. I simply had to enable my extensions and a few other simple tweaks. This worked for me; I hope it works for someone else!

[@LoganT547]

Edge has gotten really good over time. I have no reason to use Chrome now since Edge is basically the same but better!

[@525Lines]

I find I have to go wipe out cookies every once in a while.

[@marble296]

You know you can download more RAM?

[@19chiru]

@@marble296 well, i installed 128gb ram yesterday just to run chrome.

[@building_keevo]

Don't delete cookies...

[@19chiru]

@@building_keevo why? what's wrong with deleting cookies ??

[@campkira]

@@19chiru depend...i don't since i don't used chrome open anything important...

[@zukacs]

Tip 5: There is an extension that puts unused tabs to sleep or another one that closes all selected tabs and saves them for 1 click re opening

[@progamer1196]

Have heard of this issue many times online, but never had this myself. With my macbook pro 8 GB, I am able to open 16-17 tabs, with HD video playing in one of them, 2 vscode window , 2 android studio windows, emulator running, postman, slack, teams and clickup also running...

[@Mariofan2479]

Step #5: Upgrade your RAM. You don't need an expert and it's super easy to do. Just follow the instructions on your laptop/desktop on how to!

[@borisjoffe]

@@mari2. Stop buying garbage products that lock you in and prevent you from upgrading your hardware

[@deiov]

@@borisjoffe nah, prefer the software

[@fatin8345]

What about Opera Browser?

[@nurbsenvi]

A browser that only opens websites that it likes. No thanks

[@EduardoEscarez]

Kinda the same with Chrome, but the gamer version (Opera GX) includes a RAM limiter

[@newsstand1431]

Chinese spyware

[@aleksanderblinn849]

Brave?

[@dieselz48ontikt0k4]

@@aleksanderblinn849 brave Is infopicked farm

[@Chicago48]

A Microsoft expert recommended using Vivaldi. I have Edge too and it does the same as Chrome.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

EDGE IS THE SAME AS CHROME.ITS ALL CHROMIUM BASED TODAY.EVEN VIVALDI.

[@alphadonut]

I upgraded my 2012 Macbook Pro’s ram from 4GB to 16GB. It was super easy to do an made my whole computer faster. Now chrome runs like a brand new car off the lot.

[@artmaltman]

Excellent. I thought it was just me. Thank you. (Ps: who knew that Chrome had a built in task manager? How well hidden it is!)

[@sasstewart1222]

If you own a macbook, any macbook, switching to safari will dramatically increase battery. BUT i do think chrome will address some of this by the end of the year.

[@DarthAwar]

There are tab killer extensions that put to sleep tabs not used for a while freeing up RAM

[@ferribudi]

The new edge surprisingly good, I have been using it since February

[@deep.space.12]

5 - 10% improvement when using other browsers means Chrome isn't the culprit. The websites you are browsing are. Especially Facebook, a single tab can easily memory leak to over 3GB. And no, Chrome does not start a new process for every new tab. Chrome combines tabs under the same domain to a single process to save resources, because a lot of the data is shared. This has just wasted 4 minutes of my life, without any mention of session management and real settings that suspend tabs.

[@djayjp]

Not sure why Google Meet is de-compressing each video stream separately; obviously it's more optimal to have the server encode all of them together as one video to then send to the client. And before someone says latency, if it can be done in milliseconds for cloud gaming, then it can be done here.

[@francoisrossouw9864]

The new Edge is basically crome with better performance ,a built in ad blocker and privacy , and you can install sites as apps . I now use it everywhere .

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Okay, real tips are: 1. Install uBlock origin extension and turn on filters removing ads, social media buttons and tracking - they eat your ram and cpu the most. This is THE most important step. You can turn it off per-site if you wish. 2. Add --process-per-site parameter to the chrome shortcut you use to launch it (google for details). It makes all the 50 tabs of, say, reddit use common ram pool instead of occupying individual pools and saves a LOT of RAM if you have lots of similar tabs open, it can easily save you gigabytes of ram. You will see the effect in chrome task manager (as shown in this video), similar tabs will have just one ram number for all of them. BUT, if you add --process-per-site and one tab of the site starts lagging due to some misbehaving ads - all tabs of this site will start to lag. That's why uBlock is essential in this case.

[@Bangbanggooberblat69]

Google: im about to end this mans (1) career

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@Bangbanggooberblat69 I'm sad to say, this is not my career 😔

[@matyasvascak6463]

I personally just disable turbo boost using turbo boost switcher and it makes all the difference

[@emptyskies144]

No browser touches chrome with the variety of extensions available. I use Firefox for privacy, but i still need to switch to chrome from time to time to do things

[@vijaykumardilor5187]

I switched to firefox then edge recently. Hope to switch out from Gmail as well.. it's too clunky.

[@ken_yap]

Thanks Joanna, this is super helpful information!

[@bicycleetc9436]

Use Opera, or Firefox, or Epic, or Brave... And unless you have to, avoid using Google; use instead Duckduckgo. In fact you should use different browsers for each activity you do online: Personal, Finance, Work. Don't forget to download Sandboxie and make sure you create different sandboxes and delete those sandboxes regularly... Be smart. Opera will not run in Sanboxie, but has a built in VPN. Epic also has a built in proxy.

[@artuselias]

I have a 8 years old All in one PC with average specs and both Chrome and Firefox are surprisingly tame. I use Ubuntu, not Windows though.

[@celticlofts]

Since I stopped using Chrome my laptop seems to be running much better. If I want to broadcast KZbin videos to my tv I simply download the video and use VCL player to broadcast it.

[@BriefNerdOriginal]

Perhaps the WSJ audience would be more interested in how to stop Chromium (or Edge) from chewing up your personal data. Ex. by using Firefox and a couple of effective add-ons ;-) Will it make for a faster experience? Maybe totally worth it!

Which add-ons do you use in Mozilla?

[@chinchunling5216]

i already ditch google chrome and start using microsoft edge and its ran SUPER WELL

[@SatyajeetMalla]

I using Edge Browser since few months on Dell, I get 12+hrs battery back-up and no heating. Switch to edge for better privacy.

[@shameerahmad8571]

But a simple person doesn't understand what you are saying. Chrome just sounds like easy and clean, Fast and reliable. We are living in 2020 where people only seems to pick for their easy use. They don't go into technical information. How Clean my chrome is! More over, the style of how chrome shows any result, is satisfying where as others ( ahem ) have boxy and sharp impacts which really don't suit for the first impression. Rest there are opinions which others cannot deny!

[@JS-cc5hw]

One way to stop Chrome from slowing down your computer: Don't use Chrome

[@cliffgeo]

the animation is immaculate ngl

[@sivananthdiwakar8591]

Developer tools makes me go to chrome

[@jaxsonzatech7527]

Fr I have 2 chrome tabs open and it sounds like it’s going to explode I use a vivobbook flip 14 with the 8265u quad core and 8 gb ram and in edge I have 10 tabs open in edge and the fan I can barely hear like my laptop usually doesn’t have loud fans but chrome said no about that

[@jaxsonzatech7527]

And my school uses google meet so not much help either

[@EmmanuelMess]

You didn't the Firefox/Linux compination for #1?

[@SamVillano]

Lol the first thing they told us at NYU’s summer film scoring program was to close chrome if we wanted an instant ram boost 😂😂

[@keitatsutsumi]

DOWNLOAD THAT RAM PEOPLE ITS SO EASY

[@LostMySauce]

What about Opera?

[@xelefonte]

*This sounds like the biggest Microsoft Edge ad I’ve ever seen.*

[@derrickdzurko2068]

Thank you so much

[@Fo0O0oTBall]

Get rid of unneeded extensions and use "The Great Suspender" extension. Problem solved.

[@sunewjenkuzo2835]

I have stopped using chrome and switched to edge and brave browser and never regretted it.

[@Lawliet734]

Chrome supports Adblock Plus, but Edge does not, and not seeing ads on KZbin makes the biggest difference, so I use Chrome. Besides, Chrome uses only marginally more RAM than other browsers. You can add RAM to solve RAM shortage; I have 8 GB of RAM, 4 GB more than what it started with. BTW, my Firefox doesn't load pictures; does anyone know how to fix that?

[@erikdominguez6453]

Google watching this 👁👄👁

[@suryahr307]

I have been using Microsoft Edge and its much better than chrome in every aspect. Of course it let's us import all bookmarks, passwords saved in chrome

[@bcsbcs1642]

4mins video for 5% decrease in RAM usage?? totally non existent topic

[@amitbane7457]

What about duck duck go browser ,tor browser ?

[@Beelzebububble]

Ways 1-4: Use Firefox. Added bonus, you don't get embedded Google tracking of all your private activities.

[@glipk]

Love the graphics

[@cnarkaplan1180]

Man... it's true you should use Edge also but you can also use the standard Opera, it uses the same ram as Edge

[@oneofthesidemen]

I've been using Microsoft Edge for a while now since I noticed some people switching. It is faster and doesn't slow down the PC. Heck even my android version of Chrome slows my smartphone. Now, I'm using the built-in browser. What happened to you, Chrome!

[@다메다메-u8m]

性能良いパソコンならクローム使っていいと思うけど、RAM4GBとかだったらクローム重いからやめたほうがいい

[@Lucas_Antar]

I’m actually using new Edge and it feels so weird to use a Microsoft browser.

[@Somehandle16]

Same and I prefer the design a lot more compared to chrome.

[@suryahr307]

I've been using Edge for 7-8 months and I'm loving it.. Chrome really makes the rocket launcher sounds and stops PC to work for a min. It's very annoying when you're not even using chrome and writing some report.

[@stevefink6000]

Do we see a recent pattern? News sites are full of anti chrome propaganda recently. I'm an IT guy. Chrome is not a resource hog. Microsoft Edge is terrible. This "article" is a paid advertisement from MS. Nice job WSJ.

[@anandsrivastava1077]

Actually i recently tried both and found out that there was not much difference between them

[@anandsrivastava1077]

I will prefer chrome any day

[@NLiu-nj1nj]

Yes a paid advertisement by Microsoft and Apple! You know both are mentioned as beter alternatives, and we know that Apple and Microsoft really are the best of friends. What a nice conspiracy theory...

[@stevefink6000]

Yes this is the third almost identical news story I've seen this week. One was on CNBS or MSNBS and the other was The Verge I believe. Fake News

[@uicukie]

cutting edge journalism, WSJ :|

[@lkgpuanimho0349]

Joanna, cant wait for u to try Apple Watch series 6 next week

[@itsallagame2013]

Never had that problem.

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

Yes

[@ashishgurung1417]

MOST COMPUTER GEEK USE MOZILLA . ITS WAY BETTER AND ALSO OPEN SOURCE . CHROME HAS A HIGHER MARKET SHARE DUE TO THE EXPLOSION OF ANDROID AND MOBILE AND IT IS A DEFAULT BROWSER THERE SO COMMON PEOPLE DONT EVEN CARE AND USE IT HIGH MARKET SHARE DOESNT MEAN IT IS GOOD IT HAS JUST DONE WHAT MICROSOFT DID TO NEXTSCAPE

[@KangsDKN]

That's so helpful

[@krishnachaitanya7435]

Switch to Brave browser 😎

[@psychos1s.]

You should change your ram with ssd or shdd, don't use hdd

[@reverse701]

i install chrome but my computer be lag 32 times but i unitsalled now its now no lag edge 2020 beter

[@albear972]

The first way to do that is not to use it at all?

[@Citizen052]

I stopped using Chrome more than a year ago. I had become too slow. I switched to Firefox and it is much better.

[@pfever]

What about Brave?

[@thallanz231]

The new edge browser is great

[@warrenphilips8441]

Good stuff.

[@VishnuMp112]

Actually, Firefox uses much more RAM than other two. I tested with 15 tabs on three browsers , and Firefox used more than chrome. Microsoft edge was the fastest and consumed least amount of memory.

[@TrvisXXIII]

A 12 year old could’ve gave this advice. Side note, half of this stuff doesn’t work if you have a chrome book

[@bjgoodrich5864]

What about cellphone? Its has chrome! 😿😿 What should be done about that? And what about if you have Gmail?? 😿😿😿

[@bicycleetc9436]

You can download different browsers for your phone too.

[@bjgoodrich5864]

@@bicycleetc9436 That's good to know! 😺 Thank you.

[@bicycleetc9436]

@@bjgoodrich5864 If you have an Android phone, go into the Play Store and you can download the Epic Browser also the Brave Browser... Configure the Epic Browser to use a proxy and you can keep your private browsing away from people who steal your data.... You can configure the Brave Browser to use the search engine duckduckgo. You will be much safer.

[@juliandavidtoromedina1315]

i get uncertain about firefox, because i use it for that reason, to make my computer quicker. Even in linux and windows 😅

[@monstergamingstudio5327]

Thank you for helping me ma'am now i can play games with high fps☺️☺️

[@brunogazaille1592]

I went from Explorer to Brave

[@stephanguitar9778]

Haha! Had none of them running since I disabled/removed months ago, still hogs the laptop and with 8gig ram.

[@8mycereal]

I have used about a dozen browsers now and I can whole heartedly say chrome is the lowest on my personal preference chart. I can’t believe I used to think it was the best.

[@magmagamer2170]

I dont no why but my microsoft edge browser just freezes the whole computer if i use it a lot does someone has a solution pls reply me

[@botowner8623]

I use firefox.

[@KeepingUpWithRJ]

That's why honestly rather use Safari than Chrome.

[@himanshugarg2001]

This video would have been a whole lot better if the 'don't use chrome tip' was shown at the end

[@xxs0ulxx1]

why not just buy more RAM ?

[@sabin-pandey]

You can switch to new Chromium-based browser called #BraveBrowser.

[@toccata917]

Chrome task manager is pointless, for me anyway. The top CPU and RAM hoggers are always "Browser" and "GPU Process", which tells noting useful about which site or extension to kill

[@thisguy73]

Internet Explorer: I don't see what the big deal is here?

[@lynxArul]

Want Tech TIPS use a Tech Channel (ie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHe3aqWBqZx7pqs) don't rely on WallStreet to give you this sort of information, correctly. There are few things said here that are not valid.

[@bbt305]

A long commercial? Give me numbers and facts!

[@abandonednotntailitsbob6504]

How about brave browser???

[@dge.]

If you're reading this, it's time to download Microsoft Edge and ditch Google Chrome. IT'S TRULY LIFE-CHANGING.

[@greathingsaregold]

use the browser brave.com

[@bl00dkillz]

I'm sorry need my adblocker and pop up blocker on my extensions

[@ShivamSingh-jw8ey]

I have all my stored passwords, history of visited websites for easy search, and passwords stored in Chrome.

[@hydroop]

You can export those and import them into a password manager like Bitwarden (Cross Platform)