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Why do web pages take so much RAM?

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Mar 15, 202621468 views
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After leaving a bunch of pages open in Chrome, my computer gets sluggish. Windows Task Manager shows that some pages take a lot of RAM: Why do they take so much RAM? Is there a way to know how much RAM each page takes, so that I investigate? Thank you.

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Chrome is the heaviest consumer of RAM in the browser market. It trades increased memory usage for increased speed. If you run low on available RAM however, it becomes the slowest browser in the market (compared to one that would be small enough in …

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