Chrome browser for Windows and Android will soon consume less RAM...

[sanjay kumar]

According to online sources, Google is working to make its proprietary Chrome browser more efficient, while lowering the level of consumed resources. First of all, it is planned to reduce the amount of RAM used in the process of the browser. According to reports, the innovations will affect versions of Chrome for Windows, Android, Linux and possibly other platforms.

We are talking about the PartitionAlloc-everywhere function, which will allow Chrome to launch faster, speed up page loading, and also optimize the resource management process, i.e. will reduce the amount of consumed RAM. Google started developing this feature last year, and recently started rolling it out in beta versions of Chrome for Windows and Android platforms. The company's plans to add the PartitionAlloc-everywhere feature to Chrome for Linux are known for certain, but the developers are currently facing a number of problems, so it is unclear when its support will be implemented. Thus, the PartitionAlloc-everywhere function will optimize memory allocation and increase the speed of the browser.

Since the developers have already begun implementing the new feature in the beta version of the browser, we can assume that its large-scale launch will take place along with the release of one of the next versions of Chrome later this year. Note that Microsoft is also working on reducing the memory footprint of the new Edge browser, which is built on top of Chromium. This means that a certain analogue of PartitionAlloc-ever for Edge may soon be presented...