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Managing Google Chrome Memory Consumption when 20+ Tabs are Open

Google Chrome Extensions to Reduce Memory Consumption

Written by Craig Medland

Google Chrome allows users to have 20, 30 or more tabs open concurrently.   While this supports an important user behaviour, there's a known issue with Google Chrome & excessive memory consumption when that many tabs are open on a user's Cloud Desktop.

There are several 3rd party tools which can help manage tabs in Google Chrome, and therefore reduce resource consumption on the customer VM.

Examples

Tab Wrangler is a 3rd party Google Chrome extension which allows the automatic management of Chrome tabs, specifically closing tabs after x period of inactivity.   This dramatically reduces load on the customer VM (RDS Host).   See more details here

OneTab is a 3rd party Google Chrome extension which converts all tabs into a list.  By reducing the number of open tabs to a single one, can result into saving as much as 95% of memory allocated to Chrome.  See more details here.  

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