Reduce Chrome Memory usage using TooManyTabs extension
Google Chrome was one of the first browsers to have multiple processes, which creates a separate process for each tab. That means , if you have 5 tabs opened on your Chrome browser, then you can see minimum 6 processes running in the task manager with the name of chrome.exe (5 for tabs and 1 for whole chrome). If you have installed extensions and plugins then they also have separate process for each of them. Chrome's this feature occupies a lot of memory and hence might degrade the performance of your browser or your whole system. So there is an extension named 'TooManyTabs' which can help to reduce chrome's memory usage. Using TooManyTabs extension you can selectively choose inactive tabs to be suspended so that they do not occupy any memory space. Suspending a tab/link is similar to bookmarking, which store the tab in TooManyTab, but also closes the tab from your browser. Read the Benefits of Chrome's Multi-processes feature .