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Re:German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens by peterjmag on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:23PM (#5935772)
Looking at Chrome's Task Manager: my Gmail tab weighs in at 255 MB. Facebook is #2, at 168 MB. All that client-side JS gets pretty heavy.

Interestingly, #3 is the home page of an old blogspot.com blog. It's mostly just text and a few inline images, and it still somehow manages to occupy 132 MB of RAM.

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Re:German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens by rotnewson on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @11:24AM (#5940089)
I'm guessing this is either because of chrome's sandboxed tabs or the amount of RAM you have on your computer (or a combination of both).

Firefox is lighter on the RAM usage these days especially with more tabs because of the sandboxing.

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