Incidentally, it seems that Chrome somewhat recently released an update that unloads tabs from memory if you haven't interacted with them in a while. In my pers

Incidentally, it seems that Chrome somewhat recently released an update that unloads tabs from memory if you haven't interacted with them in a while. In my personal experience, this seems to have led to a pretty remarkable drop in RAM consumed by it on my high-memory systems. Yet it doesn't seem to be terribly popular so far. I guess our desires to have plenty of RAM available are secondary to our desires to have 100 tabs open at once, a quarter of which have a ton of sophisticated JS behavior, and never lose application state in any of them. Oh well. You could always look at this the other way - I did pay for that 32GB of RAM, why shouldn't it be actively used for things I find at least sort of useful instead of staying forever unused in support of some abstract notion of how being paltry with RAM use is good, or for some possible other task I want to do that does need lots of RAM.