The question is: does closing the speed gap (which used to favor Chrome) come at the expense of also closing the memory-use gap (which used to favor Firefox)?

The question is: does closing the speed gap (which used to favor Chrome) come at the expense of also closing the memory-use gap (which used to favor Firefox)? I mostly use Chrome, but on my ARM mini-desktop I had to use Firefox because Chrome just gobbled too much memory. If that option is gone, I'd call this a step backward.