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As Chrome is just a little bit of a memory hog, a purge button could be useful if you’re RAM-challenged. And that’s just what this link describes. Now, it’s only just been added to the nightly builds so it’ll only work if you have a fairly recent version of Chromium.
Not only that but it only seems to work in Windows which I don’t use (at least not with any enthusiasm). Certainly, I added the –purge-memory-button to the launch command for Chromium 4.0.263.0 (Ubuntu build 33682) but no button appeared in the Task Manager.
In OS X 10.6, I tried to launch Chromium with
/Applications $ open -a chromium.app –purge-memory-button
but got an error “unrecognized option `–purge-memory-button’”
So, just have to wait until it shows up in Chromium for non-Windows OSes.
