Google Chrome saved me $4,500

Re:Google Chrome saved me $4,500 by rksprst on Sunday December 05, 2010 @08:10PM (#1973365)

FYI: Your RAM usage is not 150MB, that's only for the main process. Each tab is it's own process and has it's own RAM utilization as well as CPU utilization.

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Re:Google Chrome saved me $4,500 by aeontech on Sunday December 05, 2010 @09:18PM (#1973556)

Yup. If I have about 40 tabs open in Chrome, especially with some Flash videos or JS-heavy sites, Chrome can easily chew up a a gig and a half of memory and slow everything to a crawl. There is no magic bullet.

Bumping my memory up to 8GB ($130 from crucial) helped a lot though. No more paging issues for now even when running photoshop, firefox, safari, chrome, zend studio/rubymine/eclipse (yes, I use vim too, but it uses practically no memory)

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Re:Google Chrome saved me $4,500 by to on Monday December 06, 2010 @12:57AM (#1974129)

esp if flash is involved chrome can get really mean... not saying other browsers are better. besides that chrome is insanely fast on osx. i compared it with win and its a bit snappier on osx. for whatever internal reasons.

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