{"id":860,"date":"2008-09-02T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/860-chrome-browser-memory-usage-a-good-start.html"},"modified":"2008-09-02T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T20:54:06","slug":"chrome-browser-memory-usage-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/860-chrome-browser-memory-usage-a-good-start.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome browser memory usage: a good start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the special url about:memory in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Google Chrome<\/a>, you get a summary of memory usage in all your running browsers, not just Chrome. I tried the following test:<\/p>\n<p>1. Close all browsers.<\/p>\n<p>2. Reopen all browsers \u2013 IE7, Chrome, Firefox, Safari &#8211; navigate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Open the Chrome memory status page:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/chrome_memory.gif\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There are figures for virtual memory as well; I\u2019ve truncated them to make the image fit better. Chrome is easily the smallest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8c094da4-9db6-45ff-9198-6f2753ab6db0\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google+chrome\" rel=\"tag\">google chrome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/memory\" rel=\"tag\">memory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/internet+explorer\" rel=\"tag\">internet explorer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/firefox\" rel=\"tag\">firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/safari\" rel=\"tag\">safari<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the special url about:memory in Google Chrome, you get a summary of memory usage in all your running browsers, not just Chrome. I tried the following test: 1. Close all browsers. 2. Reopen all browsers \u2013 IE7, Chrome, Firefox, Safari &#8211; navigate to bbc.co.uk 3. Open the Chrome memory status page: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/860-chrome-browser-memory-usage-a-good-start.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chrome browser memory usage: a good start<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,79,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet","category-software","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}