On my work laptop, I have 3GB of memory, and having Chrome with Google music, Gmail and work stuff open takes up over 50% of that. Gmail and Google Music alone

On my work laptop, I have 3GB of memory, and having Chrome with Google music, Gmail and work stuff open takes up over 50% of that. Gmail and Google Music alone take up >200MB each. So, now I'm using Firefox, and Firefox running Gmail + my work is about 700MB, or >50% reduction in memory usage over Chrome. Additionally, I'm using Spotify desktop, which consumes about 80MB of RAM while streaming, over the Google Music webapp, which takes 200MB+. RAM may be improving quickly for new generations of mobile devices, but many businesses still purchase the minimum specs for their employee's machines, and this sad little 3GB laptop is not even multiple years old yet.