Google Chrome sucks at freeing ram

[darxus]

This computer with 8gb ram keeps ending up swapping because of chrome.
I had 48 tabs open, with chrome using 4.2 gigs of ram, copied all the open urls to a file, closed chrome, started it, re-opened all the links, and memory is at 0.8 gigs of ram, in use. 19.0% of what it had been using.

Comments

[milktree.livejournal.com]

Ugh.. this is why I like web pages that could be written in vi. JavaScript and Flash and all similar crap never fails to annoy me. That's not really true, but the vast overwhelming majority of it just makes the pages harder to read and navigate.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

There is JavaScript on my site that's written in vi :)
But it's some very basic image pre-caching in my gallery that is tested to function perfectly in the absence of JavaScript support.

[milktree.livejournal.com]

You, my friend, are an exception.

Most Flash and JavaScript is crap, and only makes things worse. (although shinier)

And, the fact you wrote it in vi makes it by my definition, OK.