I often am researching stuff, and need lots of tabs open but Chrome can get very slow. I notice that often memory seems to be increasing for chrome processes - even ones I am not interacting with. I suspect this is because of Javascript.
Is there a way to temporarily disable Javascript or other resources for Chrome tabs I am not using, except for a whitelist of sites like GMail, and Facebook? (Some sites are webapps doing background tasks I find useful - like waiting for instant messages.)
I would be content with just an image of many web pages, rather than a full dynamic tab just sitting there using memory. I only need it to be dynamic when interacting with it.
I wish Chrome would keep inactive tabs in separate processes and just pause some of it's processes I'm not using.
Side note, probably separate issue: I often find killing the Flash plugin can speed things up too.