Phantom Tabs In Google Chrome

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http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/22/pha...google-chrome/

Phantom tabs have been designed to help Internet users reduce the amount of computer memory the Google Chrome browser uses at any given time. Many Internet users keep some websites and services open all the time in their web browser even though they might be accessed only sporadically by them. These tabs occupy the same amount of memory no matter if they are used or not.

That’s where phantom tabs come into play to help the user reduce the memory used by the web browser. They basically kill the process of the tab so that the computer memory is freed but leave an indicator in the form of the web page’s favicon behind so that the website can be opened again when needed.

Phantom Tabs in Google Chrome have been implemented in the latest developer builds of the web browser. They need to be enabled with the switch –enable-phantom-tabs.

Closing a pinned tab in the Google Chrome browser will close the process of that tab thus freeing memory that the tab occupied. The tab background appears transparent now which indicates to the user that it is a phantom tab.

A left-click on any phantom tab will display the closed tab so that the website can be accessed by the Chrome user again.

Lee Mathews over at Download Squad has created a short video demonstrating the new phantom tabs feature: