Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by akulbe on Saturday March 10, 2018 @07:14PM
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Another implied solution perhaps... don't use so many tabs? (I promise you, I'm speaking to myself as I say that. I use way too many, myself)
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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by lev99 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:04PM
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I'm currently at 30 Firefox tabs and it's using 1.24gb of memory. Much less than 100mb/tab.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by chalupa-man on Saturday March 10, 2018 @10:04PM
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Firefox recently switched to a design that tends towards a higher base memory usage than Chrome, but a lower usage for each new tab. With the same 30 tabs open and no extensions, the current Firefox uses ~30% less memory than Chrome. But opened only to one tab, Chrome uses ~60% less memory than Firefox. It's an interesting tradeoff.