"It's the digital equivalent of a clogged drain. You boot up your computer, click the Google Chrome icon, and . . . wait. You wait to type a search term. You wait for the page to load. You wait while your once-speedy gateway to the internet chugs along like a steam engine trying to keep up with a bullet train."
"This is almost always the main culprit. You installed an extension that seemed like a good idea a year ago-a coupon clipper, a niche productivity tool, a way to add a trail of sparkles to your cursor-and now it's silently sucking down your RAM like quicksand. Click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner. Go to More Tools > Extensions. Look at the list. Be brutal. If you don't use it at least once a week, toggle it off or, better yet, click Remove. Every single extension needs a little slice of your computer's brain to run, and they add up fast."
"You have 37 tabs open right now. One is a work document, one is a recipe you'll never try, one is a YouTube video you paused three days ago, and three are different iterations of fantasy football research. Every single one of those tabs is demanding resources, even the ones you haven't looked at in days. Click the three-dot menu and go to Settings. Click Performance in the left sidebar. Make sure Memory Saver is toggled on."
Chrome performance degrades as extensions, cached data, and numerous open tabs consume system memory and CPU. Unused extensions run in the background and should be disabled or removed to free RAM. Inactive tabs continue to demand resources; enabling Memory Saver or putting dormant tabs to sleep reduces memory usage. Most fixes for Chrome also apply to other Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge. Use More Tools > Extensions to manage or remove extensions and Settings > Performance to enable Memory Saver. Regular maintenance restores responsiveness without replacing hardware.
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