Fix Google Chrome Memory Leak Issue

Google Chrome leaks memory sometimes, and you may face memory leaking issue. There is a way to find out whether your Chrome is leaking memory or not. You can follow steps in that article to know. But there are routine checks and fixes you can try to get rid of memory leak issue. Google Chrome is no doubt a great minimalistic designed web browser with high performance but requires lots of ram usage. If you have ever experienced high ram usage or memory leaking issues in Google Chrome you can follow below guides to fix it.

Tips to Fix Google Chrome's Memory Leak or High Ram usage

There are a few advice and checks to fix high ram usage also known as the memory leak. You can read and check on the machine and if they are not correct fix them one by one.

• Latest Version of Google Chrome: - Google Chrome browser's developer community maintains 3 version of Google Chrome. Beta, Canary and Normal version. Updates and new features are tested by Canary, Beta and then stable releases. So using Beta or Canary for a regular user is not a good idea and if you are using standard version then do check if it is updated to latest version or not. To check go to Settings > Help or enter following address: - chrome://help/ in the Address bar.
• Remove Unused Extensions and Apps : - I was wondering one day why my machine is running very slow even after 8 GBs of ram then realised that only Google Chrome is slow and was eating too much ram. When I opened Chrome's 'Task Manager' (shift+esc) there were some apps and extensions which I don't even remember. Only keep useful extension and apps, remove those who are not of your use.
  Open extensions page and remove unwanted extensions and apps from there to resolve the high ram (memory leak) issue.
  Chrome menu->More tools->extensions or enter chrome://extensions/
• Use Google Chrome's Task Manager : - Lots of Google Chrome user don't know that it has own task manager where memory usage and other details can be seen. You can use Chrome's task manager to fix memory leaking issue. Open task manager by pressing Shift + Esc and kill unwanted processes by selecting and pressing 'End Process' button. This will surely help to reduce ram usage and fix any memory issue with Google Chrome browser.
• Use extensions to reduce "High Memory Usage" : - There are a number of useful extensions to reduce high ram usage. One tab and The Great suspenders are two excellent extensions to help you in high memory usage issue.

If these problems do not resolve high memory usage issue or you still think Chrome is leaking memory then reinstalling can fix it. You can completely uninstall Google Chrome and reinstall it to fix most of the problems including high memory usage or memory leaks.

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How to Sort Downloads according to file type in Google Chrome

We have recently discussed changing default download location and placing a download icon in Chrome. You can quickly change download location in Google Chrome, but you can not sort downloads like other download manager do by file types. Google Chrome lack this feature, but there is way out there to sort downloads according to the data type with the help of a Chrome extension.

Download sort is a cool extension that let you sort your downloads by file types. You can download the extension from below link and try it yourself. Downloads Router is a small expansion that helps you abstain from cleaning the feared "Downloads" organiser via naturally spring records in the right places. Downloads Router springs energetically at whatever point you begin downloading a file. It takes a gander at the filename, filetype, or starting point space (source site) of the thing, and matches this data against standards that you characterise on the expansion's Options page. Should a coordinating principle exist, a "recommendation" is sent to the program, demonstrating where it ought to spare the record; this proposal may, however, be superseded, on occurrence when you utilise the "Save As..." highlight. 

Download Sort Extension link

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How to Change Default Download Folder in Google Chrome

Google Chrome is no doubt great web browser and provides great user experience, but I get very irritated when all my downloads are being saved in the default location, so I decided to change it. There is an easy way to change default download folder in Google Chrome running on any machine or operating system.
Google Chrome saves all files to "Downloads" folder on your computer, but you can always choose to "Save As" option by right clicking on download buttons on web pages. Many times right click and save as option doesn't work and you may want to change default download folder for Google Chrome. In this case, you can do it from "Settings" of your Google Chrome browser.
There is an option to change your file download location. Default download folder can be easily changed to any folder located on your computer.

How to Change default download folder in Chrome

To change default download folder follow these steps:-

• Open Google Chrome's setting.
• Click on "Show advanced settings" (Scroll at the end of the page and you will see this option)
  
• Now find "Downloads" option from setting list.
• After that change "Download location."
  

Once you changed the path for downloads, all downloads will be saved in the new location, and you can manage your files from there. This is not a trick but a useful method to change default download location. Also, But there are few useful extensions to sort downloads in Google Chrome with the help of extensions.

Google Chrome have a default option to open downloads page, use Ctrl with J for it, but if you want to add an icon for download page, then you can use this extension from clean and straightforward to place a download icon near setting button similar to Firefox browser. Also don't forget to check guide to enable reader mode in Google Chrome.

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