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stevec
stevec

Reputation: 52867

Prevent Google Chrome unloading or discarding tabs?

Chrome frequently discards (i.e. 'unloads') tabs that haven't been active for a while. That makes sense if low on RAM, but I have ~70GB spare RAM.

I put this into the address bar: chrome://discards and can see all open tabs and their discard status (AKA 'Loading State') i.e. loaded vs unloaded).

How can I configure chrome to never discard tabs?

What I know so far

I can see someone's asked how to do it using javascript (here).

I tried searching Chrome settings but no results:

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I also tried searching the flags (chrome://flags/) for anything related to 'tabs', 'unloading', 'discarding' etc, but couldn't spot anything there either.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3407

Answers (1)

stevec
stevec

Reputation: 52867

Go to chrome settings by copy/pasting this into the address bar:

chrome://settings/?search=memory+saver

Search for 'memory saver'

The turn it off:

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Notes

  • You can check that it's working by periodically going here: chrome://discards/ and making sure none of the tabs discarded/uploaded

  • All credit to this answer.

Upvotes: 7

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