Scroll down to the bottom again and clear the tick against Use hardware acceleration when available. Scroll down to the bottom and click Show advanced settings. Prevent it from being used and the Mac will have more memory.Ĭlick the menu button and select Settings. The GPU Process is designed to speed up certain web content, but it is an option and not a necessity. Now 100MB on its own is not much, but all the small savings added together make a big saving. It is using 76MB in the screenshot, but the amount of memory used varies and it can climb to 100MB.
If you look back at the first screenshot showing Task Manager, there is an item called GPU Process. The remaining items do not affect the memory or speed and so they can be synced.
For example, clear Apps, Extensions, Settings, and Themes. Select Choose what to sync in the menu at the top, then clear the ticks against anything that might affect the speed of memory usage of Chrome. In the Sign in section at the top, click the Advanced sync settings button. Chrome will sync settings if you let it and it is best to stop it and to configure the browser separately on each computer.Ĭlick the menu button and then select Settings.
What is good for your main Mac or PC with 16GB of memory might not be good on your second Mac or PC with only 4GB of memory. Many people work on more than one computer and if they don’t all have the same specification, different Chrome settings might be best for each one. There will always be some items in the list, but not everything in Task Manager is essential and you can live without some things, with the resulting benefit of less memory and CPU used.Ĭhrome has improved memory usage. This will free up memory and reduce the CPU usage. To make both Chrome and macOS run faster and smoother, we need to reduce the number of items in this list. It tells you what is running and how much memory it is using.Ĭlick the Chrome menu button and select More tools, Task manager. There is a great tool in Chrome called Task Manager and it is the equivalent of Activity Monitor in macOS.
Chrome can easily become bloated and when you have just 4GB of memory and a mechanical disk drive, the Mac can slow to a crawl if you then open other apps that also require lots of memory. If you are struggling with an older Mac, then optimising apps and macOS to run as fast as possible is an important consideration. There are a lot of older MacBooks with limited memory, many with old style spinning platter mechanical disk drives, and CPUs that are several generations behind the current technology. The trouble is that not everyone has a top-end Mac that is maxed out with memory and has a super fast SSD. You have lots of memory in which Chrome can expand and when the memory is full, the SSD can be used almost as quickly.
If you have a brand new MacBook Pro with 16B of RAM and a solid state disk, this article is not for you.
Here’s how to speed it both the browser and Mac. This can slow down the browser and slow down the Apple Mac. Chrome is a great web browser, but it can be a real memory hog if it is not configured correctly.