No matter how many other programs I am running, when I open task manager it always seems like Chrome is at 1000 or 2000+ MB of memory usage, whereas everything else barely hits 500MB
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I think a better way to think about it is that all of the web pages and extensions you have open are taking up a lot of RAM. It’s just that to your operating system, they’re all grouped together as “Chrome”.
Did you know Chrome has its own Task Manager? Find it in the Chrome menu, under “More Tools”. That will show you how much RAM each webpage you’re using has open.
For example, for me, Gmail is using up 285 MB of RAM. That might seem like a lot, but it’s a pretty complex app with lots of features, and it caches a lot of mail so that when you click on it, it loads instantly. That takes RAM.
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