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Recently we published an article on this - Why chrome consumes so much memory compared to other browsers. Do let me know if it was helpful! here is the link - h

• rco8786 4y ago
  This does help some, but I am hoping to get some more internal details. The article seems to focus on the number of child processes that Chrome spins off, but multiple processes does not automatically mean bloat. All the major browsers that I am aware of also use a process-per-tab approach, but don't seem to have the memory issues to the same extent as Chrome. This also kind of hints at my follow up question around Electron. Electron just uses 2 processes, one Chromium and one Nodejs, but still it has memory problems. edit Oddly enough I just went and looked. Both Slack and VSCode (electron apps) are actually consuming a relatively reasonable amount of memory (on the order of 100s of MBs each) on my Macbook. Maybe some progress has been quietly made in this area, specific to Electron? Or maybe I'm just desensitized to apps taking up 100s of MBs