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

That's unfortunate

[drwex]

I've been on the verge of chucking Firefox because they seem incapable of solving their memory issues. Then they rearchitected (around release 3.4 I think) to move all media processing into a separate process. The result is a still leaky as heck, but much less likely to freeze up my computer.

Re: That's unfortunate

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's fascinating how browsers have always seemed to have so much difficulty not sucking. I assume it doesn't help that most of the html on the internet conforms to no standard.

You could try Opera.