Chrome now warns of resource-hogging tabs — here’s how to enable it

If you’re the kind of person who keeps tons of open tabs in Chrome, you’ve probably noticed that your PC performance suffers after a while—especially if you’re doing more than just reading articles.

Fortunately, in the latest beta version of Chrome, there’s a new feature that warns you when a particular tab is consuming too many resources. It’s then up to you to decide whether to close that tab or not.

If you want to try this new feature now, you have to download the latest version of Chrome Canary from Google’s website.

After completing the installation, launch Chrome Canary and type chrome://flags in the address bar and press the Enter key. From here, you can adjust all kinds of hidden options that drive Chrome.

To enable the browser tab performance warning, look for and enable these two options:

#performance-intervention-ui

#performance-intervention-demo-mode flag

Then, restart your computer.

After restarting, launch Chrome Canary and type chrome://settings/performance in the address bar and press the Enter key. You should then be able to select Performance Issue Alerts in the list, according to Windows Latest.