The fact that the most popular Apple laptops are still spec'd to have a max of 16 GB of RAM is exactly why I am building Mighty. The level of innovation & progress is abysmally slow in desk computing.
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That matters little, I suspect, if your memory swapping because you only have 8-16 GB and Chrome eats 8 GB.
Why does Chrome use so much memory? A tab displaying a 4k text file uses 40 MB of memory. It seems one of the more extreme cases of Parkinson's Law in technology.
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Induced demand
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That's actually because web is made up of quite distinctive set of technologies. Loading a page take rendering CSS in realtime along with running JS and processing TCP requests. This isn't just about the chrome, safari and firefox also consume quite similar amount of ram.
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Because it is easier to add new features to Chrome than remove them
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