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In Chrome (for me, on 64bit Linux) it consumes 176MB of RAM -- for all of WebKit + Cairo + FreeType/HarfBuzz/etc -- it's most of an OS right there.

GMail, a webapp email reader, is currently taking 368MB of RAM. Insane!



"Web browsers have never been more memory efficient, and web pages have never had more memory bloat." - someone on Twitter a couple days ago




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