Well, I personally wouldn't put any web-browser in the performance applications category. They are important applications, no doubt, and increasing their memory

Well, I personally wouldn't put any web-browser in the performance applications category. They are important applications, no doubt, and increasing their memory safety is always a plus. But there is something "soft realtime"/definitive about fitting the rendering of millions of textured-polygons, and running AI, Physics, data streaming, audio, gameplay code in a total budget of 16ms per-frame for hours and hours.