ChromeFlash

Optimize Chrome's speed and RAM usage with intelligent tab management, network tuning, and performance monitoring.

ChromeFlash — Speed & RAM Optimizer ## Short Description (132 chars max) Optimize Chrome's speed and RAM. Suspend tabs, monitor memory, toggle hidden settings, and boost performance with one-click profiles. ## Detailed Description ChromeFlash gives you full control over Chrome's performance. See exactly where your RAM is going, suspend tabs you're not using, and fine-tune hidden browser settings — all from a single popup. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHROME RAM BREAKDOWN Stop guessing where your memory goes. ChromeFlash estimates Chrome's RAM usage and breaks it down by category: • Active Tabs — how much your open tabs are consuming • Pinned Tabs — lightweight pinned tab overhead • Media Tabs — tabs playing audio or video • Suspended Tabs — near-zero memory usage • Browser Core — Chrome's internal processes • Extensions — extension process overhead ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INTELLIGENT TAB MANAGEMENT • Auto-suspend inactive tabs to free hundreds of MB • Set custom inactivity thresholds (1–120 minutes) • Protect pinned tabs and tabs playing audio • Detect and close duplicate tabs instantly • Suspend all inactive tabs with one click ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ONE-CLICK OPTIMIZATION PROFILES Choose a profile and ChromeFlash configures everything for you: ⚡ Gaming — Maximum performance. Suspends all inactive tabs in 1 minute, disables 5 background services, clears cache. Saves ~500–2000 MB. 💼 Productivity — Balanced. 15-minute suspension threshold, keeps DNS prefetch and autofill active for faster workflows. 🔋 Battery Saver — Aggressive power saving. 5-minute suspension, disables background network activity, reduces CPU by 10–20%. 🛡️ Privacy — Disables Topics API, FLEDGE ads, spell check cloud service, translation, and autofill. Enables Do Not Track. Clears cache and service workers. Each profile shows detailed stats: estimated RAM savings, CPU impact, which services are turned on/off, and what it's best for. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HIDDEN SETTINGS CONTROL Toggle Chrome privacy and network settings that are normally buried deep in chrome://settings: • DNS Prefetch & Preconnect — speed up or reduce background network calls • Spell Check Service — disable cloud-based spell checking • Translation Service — stop automatic page translation • Search Suggestions — control omnibox network requests • Autofill — toggle address and credit card autofill • Do Not Track — send DNT headers to websites • Topics API — disable interest-based ad tracking • FLEDGE / Protected Audiences — disable on-device ad auctions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHROME FLAGS GUIDE A curated database of 21 performance-boosting chrome://flags, organized by category: • Rendering — GPU Rasterization, Zero-Copy, Skia Graphite • Network — QUIC Protocol, WebSocket over HTTP/2 • Memory — Tab Discarding, High Efficiency Mode, Heavy Ad Intervention • JavaScript — V8 Sparkplug, V8 Maglev compilers • Loading — Back/Forward Cache, Parallel Downloads, Lazy Image Loading Each flag includes a description, risk level, impact rating, and a button to open it directly in chrome://flags. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD • Optimization score (0–100) based on memory, tabs, and settings • Real-time CPU and memory monitoring • Full-page dashboard with historical performance charts • Per-tab memory breakdown table ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LIGHTWEIGHT & PRIVATE • Zero external dependencies — pure vanilla JavaScript • No data collection, no analytics, no remote servers • All settings stored locally on your device • Manifest V3 compliant • Under 50 KB total size ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ChromeFlash requests only the permissions it needs: • tabs — to monitor, suspend, and manage your tabs • storage — to save your settings and statistics locally • alarms — to schedule automatic tab suspension checks • system.memory / system.cpu — to display performance data • browsingData — to clear cache when requested or when applying profiles • privacy — to toggle the network and privacy settings listed above ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Perfect for power users, developers, gamers, and anyone who keeps too many tabs open.