Google Chrome 55 now available

[tf76]

Google Chrome Version 55 has been released.

Apparently it drastically reduce's RAM usage by as much as 50 percent thanks to an updated JavaScript V8 engine that reduces the memory zone and heap size.
Another big change is that it is slowly pushing Flash out the back door in favor of HTML5. So it's a faster browser and better security.


Regards,

 

[phaZed]

I can confirm that memory usage seems lower (12 tabs open; PDF's, Video playing, etc) and memory usage is at 320MB or so... pretty good. Seems a bit snappier, but hard for me to tell on this machine with my i7-6700K and Sammy 512GB NVMe drive <-- Shameless gloating!

 

[NETWizz]

Well, my memory usage dropped for Chrome from 293 MB to 82 MB, but does it really matter significantly this day and age where I have 32 GB RAM?

 

[GTP]

Still takes snapshots every 15 seconds and writes 10~15 Gb per day to your HDD. If you have an SSD it will reduce it's life considerably!