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Chromium nightly build adds memory-saving 'phantom tab' support

by Lee Mathews on January 22, 2010 at 09:01 AM

Pinned tabs are a great way to save room on your tab strip in Google Chrome. But suppose you want to free up the resources something you've pinned is using -- say the 50+ MB of memory used by Seesmic Web or another similar web apps? In the latest Chromium nightly builds, a new feature has been added called phantom tabs. When enabled, you can right-click and close a pinned tab and its favicon ...
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