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[–] [deleted] 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

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[–] i208khonsu ago 

I have the same knee jerk reaction, but the bulk of internet users are slow adapters. For instance my parents currently use Chrome after me hammering it into them to use it for years. Similarly I know a lot of general computer users around the office use Chrome. Personally I use Palemoon (a firefox derivative) as well as Firefox. Both portable versions synced through BitTorrentSync, and both loaded with slightly different addon configurations. I've noticed a lot of users migrating away from Chrome also elect to use some Firefox derivative which impacts these numbers.

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[–] gamesjunkie ago 

Honestly, I'm kind of curious to see how much RAM usage these people are supposedly seeing. I have 4 tabs open right now and it's using a grand total of... 300MB? Really? Is that legitimately something to complain about? Am I missing something?

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[–] foshizzle ago 

4 tabs really isn't that much. A lot of people have dozens of tabs open at any given time and some people have hundreds.

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[–] foshizzle ago 

I always thought that if you weren't using your RAM then it was wasted RAM.

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[–] glUniform4fv ago 

True, until some other program actually requires the RAM that chrome is "wasting"; that's when your entire system gets slow because every program is forced to swap between RAM and HDD/SSD.

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[–] Xseleon ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, same deal here. Although the RAM usage was becoming more and more of a problem for my computer, I eventually ended up switching because of all the layout changes they began to implement. I think the one that caused me to install Firefox that day was the google search engine they decided to put in the new tab page, something I thought was rather useless.

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[–] gamesjunkie ago 

It is pretty pointless given that you can just type your query into the address bar. Maybe they're trying to lure older/less tech-savvy folks to Chrome. Beats me.