Why do browsers sometimes drain a lot of RAM until rebooted?

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Why do browsers sometimes drain a lot of RAM until rebooted?

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Answer 1

Browsers don’t use much RAM in a modern PC, this is a misconception that developed from when computers had only megabytes of RAM.
You might find that it’s the websites you visit consuming all your RAM as they have multimedia from different sources.
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