This won’t necessarily lead to massive improvements in performance, but it could help if you either have limited memory in your system or simply like to keep many browser tabs open. You should see the feature soon after Google can build Chrome using the right Windows 10 developer kit. “Many-core” systems are most likely to see the largest benefit, the engineer said.

The Photos app normally runs in a suspended state. The only problem is that while you are free to use a different app, Photos tends to run in a suspended state. You can select any other image viewer and use it in its place. The improvements in Chrome could vary wildly depending on the system, but tests indicated that it could sometimes save “hundreds of MB” in the browser and system processes. Photos may be a stock app but it isn’t a core Windows 10 tool. Chrome will switch to “Segment Heap” memory management that, in Microsoft’s experience, cut memory use by 27 percent. You'll be able to view how much of your computer's RAM is being used in graph format near the top of the page, or by looking at the number beneath the 'In use (Compressed)' heading.

WindowsLatest has learned (via MSPowerUser) that a Google engineer recently revealed that a future Chrome release will use a technique from Microsoft Edge to lower RAM usage and theoretically boost performance. It's on the top-left side of the 'Task Manager' window. Google has spent years trying to reduce Chrome’s notorious appetite for memory, and it’ll soon offer a substantial improvement for Windows 10 users.

Windows 10 photos memory usage