There is no doubt that Google Chrome is the youngest but one of the most popular and widely used web browsers. There are many people who have switched from popular browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to Google Chrome.
Google Chrome comes with a clean and very minimal UI. It also comes with many hidden features and one of such hidden feature is purging memory.
If you are a Google Chrome user, you might be aware of its Task Manager component which allows you to end task of running tabs, etc similar to Windows Task Manager.
But did you know that you can add a hidden secret "Purge memory" button to Chrome's Task Manager. This new button allows you to free some memory using a single click. You don't even need to close the browser.
If you want to enable this secret button, check out following simple steps:
1. Right-click on Google Chrome's shortcut and select Properties option.
2. Now you just need to add --purge-memory-button text string at the end of the existing string present in Target text box as shown in following screenshot:
Make sure there is a blank space between existing string and your new string.
3. That's it. Apply the changes and restart Chrome.
Now you can access Task Manager by pressing "Shift+Esc" keys together or by selecting Tools -> Task Manager menu and a new button "Purge memory" will be added to Task Manager window.
Thanks to our reader "TheAslan" for sharing this trick...
Check out following video showing the whole method live in action:
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Google Chrome
xoniv
How do people find these things out?
Asrin475
Thanks VG, I thing ur Started to tweak Google Chrome
VG
^^ This tip was shared by "TheAslan" one of very active AskVG reader just like you guys. ;)
The Rock
awesome tip. thank u so much. :D
Andrea
Might come handy in future. Thanks VG and TheAslan. :)
Peter II
Thank u VG. Please post more Chrome tips.
Vikas
Thats why I love this site. More power. :D
Bob the builder
LOL. Nice Find. ;)
Jean M.
Wow. Thats new to me. God bless U.
Kapil
Thanks VG. You are the best. :)
VG
Thanks guys. I'm glad you liked the tip. :)
TheAslan
@ xoniv
Check this out:
peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
There is numerous command line switches =D
AskVG Fan
cool trick.
Asrin475
@ VG,
I again thank you nd theaslan.
Memo
It didn't work for SRWare Iron (Chromium based)
Any tip?
Kyle
[VG and] TheAslan ftw!!!!!! +1 hellll yeah
Mushaf
Great tip. Thanks!
TheAslan
Enable smooth scroll in Chromium without installing any extension (might work in Chrome too):
Type chrome://flags in your address bar and hit enter, new window opens, then browse that window until you see this:
oi48.tinypic.com/kdwchy.jpg
Then just click "Enable" button and then hit appearing "Relaunch" button bottom of the screen, Chromium restarts itself, smooth scroll should be now enabled, if you want to disable it then just follow the steps above and change hit "Disable" button and then "Relaunch".
PS:
There's few good and very effective config in chrome://flags
geekabilly
Any ideas on why I cant get this to work on W8 pro 64? NP on W7 home 64...
Thanks & happy 2013!
jerzy
It was very good tip but in chrome 26.0.1410.43 m this button simply shuts browser.